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On Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 1:59:41 AM UTC+2, Micah Waddoups wrote:
<snip>
> Frankly, the former rules for directly specifying the contents of an arra=
y were perfect, when you can only use parenthesis.  Being able to use squar=
e brackets to improve the readability of an array is brilliant because it i=
s familiar to those who use other languages and it does very little to chan=
ge what is already part of the language definition (square brackets are alr=
eady use in a way that does not conflict).  Therefore, it is not confusing,=
 just new.
>=20

The brackets are proposed as a syntax for aggregates, and should not be con=
fused with array indexing, which of course will remain as highly readable a=
s ever, not to mention maintainable; An array can be easily swapped for a f=
unction without requiring major changes all over the place, as array indexi=
ng and function calls have the same syntax.



--=20
~egilhh