> On Jan 20, 2017, at 2:57 PM, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution
> <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
>
>> The “Empty Subscript”
>>
>> Empty subscript seems weird. IMO, it’s because of the asymmetry
>> between subscripts and computed properties. I would favour a model
>> which unifies computed properties and subscripts (e.g. computed
>> properties could return “addressors” for in-place mutation).
>> Maybe this could be an “entireCollection”/“entireSlice" computed
>> property?
>
> It could, but x.entireSlice is syntactically heavyweight compared to
> x[], and x[] lives on a continuum with x[a...], x[..<b], and x[a..<b]
Wouldn’t `x[…]` be more consistent with these other syntaxes?
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