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

[Nagaev Boris <bnagaev@...>]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 7:10 AM, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

It was fixed in C++ because it is not ambigous for a programmer (not
for a parser). The construction being discussed t[[[]]] is ambiguous
for a programmer.

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Best regards,
Boris Nagaev