On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Derek Parnell <de...@psych.ward> wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 2009 23:02:37 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> Derek Parnell wrote: >>> 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. >> >> No. > > But you never asked for the name of my favourite language?
Does it have string or character literals? Then there's probably at least two meanings. ;-P --bb