Re: Shorthand for appending to a table (was Re: 5.2 feature list?)

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

David Jones wrote:
> I'm always very loath to suggest or support more syntax, but how about 
> if '#' on its on in an expression inside [] were to mean the length of 
> the table being indexed.  So you could go:
>
> t[#+1] = value
>
> It's pretty clear, and almost syntactically unambiguous.

It seems a sensible approach.

  Enrico