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Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Ease of change?  What do C++ programmers say about operator[]?

Somehow I don't think Ada programmers' days are filled with flipping
between arrays and functions, but that's just me.

In C++, one is expected to use operator[] for things that are "like"
arrays - containers which can be indexed by something. Note that C++
allows Ada-like syntax as well:
     a(i) = b(j);
because you can overload operator() (the function-call operator).