Indexing access for Lists and Maps considered harmful?

[Neal Gafter]

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Tom Hawtin <Thomas.Hawtin at sun.com> wrote:

> Getting back to this feature. Shouldn't `a[b] = c` be a drop in
> replacement for `a.put(b, c)`?


No, it should not.