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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Community Input for the Maintenance and Revision of the Ada
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Le mardi 29 août 2017 01:49:15 UTC+2, far...@gmail.com a écrit :
...
> Oddly missing from Ada, and commented about on this list before, is why 
> brackets [ ] aren't used for
> array indexing.

Why is this odd? There are a number of mapping operations in Ada, and its 
not possible for them all to have different brackets (as there are only 
three sets): array indexing, function calls, type conversions, array 
slicing, etc. Moreover, it's easier to switch between them if the brackets 
don't change (especially when changing from something else to a function 
call).

                            Randy.