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Subject: Re: Ada 202x and square brackets
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On Wednesday, 20 February 2019 14:32:14 UTC, Jere  wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 19, 2019 at 5:01:05 PM UTC-5, Lucretia wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've noticed whilst looking through the grammar of draft 17 there are a lot of new uses of '[' ']' without much explanation. Can someone elaborate?
> > 
> > Ta,
> > Luke.
> 
> I know you found it, but for other's benefit, which did you find.  I 
> searched through and found them used in "reduction expressions" [1], 
> but I don't know if that was the only use
> 
> [1]: http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/2xrm/html/RM-4-5-10.html#I3068

It was aggregates for containers, so you can do Set := [1,2,3,4] or something like that. I didn't read the details.

http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/2xaarm/html/AA-4-3-5.html