Re: Subscript brackets

[tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no (Tarjei Jensen)]

>In article <dewar.831031371@schonberg> Robert Dewar writes:
>   The argument in favor of parentheses is one of uniformity of reference.
>   An array is, from a mathematical point of view, simply a function.
>   There is a special way of implementing the function efficiently, but
>   since at the abstract level it is a function, it should have the
>   same syntax as a function.
>

Which means that once again one has fallen into the trap of using something
cute instead of waking up to the realities that as far as the programmer is
concerned source code is text and not a mathematical expression.

As far as I am concerned the "orthogonality" is far fetched and an excellent
example of how to carry things too far.

In my opinion one throws away an enhancement to readability by not using square
braces. They would be useful in other situations as well. I prefer array[ n ]
to array( n ) and record = [ field1, field2 ] to record = ( field1, field2 ).

Greetings,
 
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