Luke Palmer wrote: >On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Markus Laire wrote: >You know, the idea that square brackets are the only things that can make >lists is starting to really appeal to me. Similar for squiggles and > <snip>
>So parens really do provide grouping, not list constructing. Thus, this >can stay: > > print("foo ", "bar"); > >It also provides a really nice visual clue: If and only if you see [], >there's a list creeping around. Before, the "and only if" could not be >included. > This could take care of ambiguous situations like: print (1, 2, 3), "\n"; I don't know how many times I've done that and wanted it to print "123\n". I know it's a feature, but it can be a bug in my writing. Now it'd be unambiguous: print [1, 2, 3], "\n"; --matt diephouse