Derek Parnell wrote:
On Mon, 18 May 2009 19:31:23 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:I completely disagree that that's a special case. ".." is punctuation. You can't pretend punctuation has the same meaning everywhere in a programming language.I'm a bit confused. Are you saying that one must expect that the meaning of punctuation in a programming language depends on the context the punctuation is found in?
How many meanings does '[' have in your favorite programming language? Andrei