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

[byhoe@greenlime.com (Adrian Hoe)]

dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote in message news:<5ee5b646.0202250639.5002d518@posting.google.com>...
> 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 :-)


I could not find it in Google's archives. Any pointer? :-(

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