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> Conceptually, an array indexing operation *is* a function call.

There are two basic aggregate data structures in software engineering: arrays and records. Both have elements, which have to be selected from the whole object. In both cases the selection operation is a mapping - hence, a function.

It is interesting to see how much energy is spent on defending the idea that array indexing *must* have the function-call syntax, and yet nobody has a problem with record field accesses.

But hey, name lookup within packages is also a mapping.
So are conditional expressions, both If/Then and Case forms.

Yet, it's convenient to claim that Ada is consistent and readable, because it has round brackets for array indexing?

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com