On Mon, 18 May 2009 21:47:01 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > 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?
One. But how is your question an answer to my question? -- Derek Parnell Melbourne, Australia skype: derek.j.parnell