[Tutor] Can you modify every nth item in a list with a single assignment?

[Bob Gailer]

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What we need here is a new language feature that lets us provide a sequence 
of index values to a list. Something like:

MyList[(1,4,9,23)] = MyList[(1,4,9,23)] + 43


Bob Gailer
bgailer@alum.rpi.edu
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