Hi, I've noticed that one of the biggest inconveniences of lisp is a very clumsy way of accessing arrays. Having to write (array-set! a (* (array-ref a i j) 2) i j)) seems to be unnecessarily prolix, for in C, language designed specifically to access arrays, the same operation could be written as a[i][j] *= 2;
Indeed, LISP is intended for processing lists, but there are certain tasks where dealing with arrays is inevitable. So perhaps it would be a good idea to use square brackets, as it is done in C, to access arrays, so that [a i j] could be understood by the interpreter as (ref-array a i j) where ref-array is the appropriate getter with setter. Therefore I wonder how could this functionality be implemented in guile, or, preferably, in generic R^5RS. [I've heard that R^6RS makes no distinction between [] and ()] Regards Maciek
