Re: Change #..., disallow #{}, add ...[]

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2015-10-20 18:34 GMT+02:00 Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com>:
> On 20/10/15 02:00 PM, Andrew Starks wrote:
>> My biggest complaint, and it is a very small critique, is simply the
>> awkwardness of typing `select('#', ...)`. `#(...)` would be nicer to
>> type, but the implications of this are not known to me.
> `#...` would be nicer to type, `(...)` is an expression so `#(...)` actually
> returns the length of the first value in `...` (just like the current
> `#...`)

`##` would be even nicer to type.

Tom has pointed out that my suggestion that #index becomes
a `select` shorthand when index is an integer is unimplementable,
but for numeric literals #1, #2 etc it is possible. (And in Ravi, of
course.)