Indexing access for Lists and Maps: Don't Panic!

[Reinier Zwitserloot]

If this list can't figure it out, it seems somewhat presumptuous to  
think that your average java programmer will. As this coin proposal is  
purely boilerplate removal, we should take care not to make the  
boilerplate form more confusing than the original, lest we miss the  
aim of this project entirely.

  --Reinier Zwitserloot



On 2009/25/06, at 02:00, Joe Darcy wrote:

> Hello.
>
> A meta-comment on the voluminous email traffic about the potentially
> puzzling semantics of the proposed setting indexing operators for  
> Lists
> and Maps: Don't Panic!
>
> Such issues being uncovered, analyzed, and subsequently fixed is an
> expected part of language evolution.  In my estimation, this is a
> relatively minor problem that can be addressed in subsequent revisions
> of the indexing proposal.
>
> -Joe
>