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On August 15, 2019 8:00:02 AM UTC, Oliver <oschmidt-mailinglists@gmx.de> wrote:
>On 13.08.19 06:45, Sean Conner wrote:
>>   Well, another pain point is
>> 	veryLongNmae[complexLValue] = veryLongName[complexLValue] + 1
>
>a similar and common use case is appending an element to an array: it's
>also
>painful to write:
>
>	complexLValue[#complexLValue + 1] = newElement;

You can avoid typing very long names by not having very long names in your program.

You can avoid repeating complex index calculations by storing the index in a variable or, preferably, not having complex index calculations in your program.
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Storkman