Re: Why not using [] instead of () for array?

[dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)]

David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> wrote in message news:<a5ci16$9281@news.cis.okstate.edu>...
> [] are not in the ISO 646 safe subset

Indeed, it was always a pain to write Pascal in Sweden,
where [] are overridden for the extra letters in the 
Swedish alphabet.

But anyone asking this question should also understand
that

a) this is a very old old language discussion item, dating
back decades, with arguments on both sides (there are those who like
the idea of using the same syntax for two different concrete ways of
representing functions - an
array is of course simply a function mathematically).

b) this has been discussed ad nauseam, and there is nothing
else to add

c) this has been discussed on CLA, and now that google has
all the old records, there is no excuse for anyone not
consuling the archives :-)