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Subject: Re: Selecting Components
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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam@spam.com> writes:

> What would be the consequences if a language were designed so that all
> selections used dot notation, including arrays:
>
> Array.Index
> Array.Index_1, Index_2
> Array.Low .. High

Mass confusion.

No new software is written.

All trains stop running.

No food is delivered.

All die.

Oh, the embarrassment :).

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-- Stephe