Re: [Suggestion] Define t[[[]]] to index t with a long string

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 9:09 PM, 书呆彭, Peng Yi <nerditation@outlook.com> wrote:
> 在 2015/10/9 6:00, Soni L. 写道:
>>
>> I sometimes don't want to escape strings (so that the human reader can
>> read them literally instead of trying to figure out the escapes), and adding
>> spaces around the long strings just doesn't look as good. t[[[]]] is
>> currently a syntax error and t[[===[]===]] is currently a function call.
>>
>
> if you were a C++ guy, you'd be very familiar with code such as (note the
> spaces between the '>'s):
>
>    std::vector<std::pair<std::string, std::list<int> > >  my_array;
>
> the spaces are needed to help the lexer's disambiguation.

That wart has been fixed in C++ for four years now.

/s/ Adam