> I agree 100% percent with the observations, but not with the solution. > > Shouldn’t this be done the other way around, by introducing a new way of > accessing map elements? For example: > map@[key] > map.[key] > > Then we can continue to use . and [] to access properties and use @[] to > access data structure elements. I wouldn’t like the asymmetry introduced by > using [] for the latter task.
One more thought: Currently, [] perpetrates the illusion of objects being maps when it is actually closer to a meta-programming mechanism. Not continuing in that direction seems conceptually cleaner to me (even if the syntax will baffle people coming from other programming languages). -- Dr. Axel Rauschmayer [email protected] twitter.com/rauschma home: rauschma.de blog: 2ality.com _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
