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

[Ted Neward]

+1. As Josh will be able to attest (or maybe not, his viewpoint might have
been different from mine), the 175 EG was a lot like this, and honestly, I
like what we came up with in the end, even if it wasn't everything I'd
originally thought it would be *and* ended up to be more than I thought it
could be. :-)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: coin-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net [mailto:coin-dev-
> bounces at openjdk.java.net] On Behalf Of Joe Darcy
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:00 PM
> To: coin-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Indexing access for Lists and Maps: Don't Panic!
> 
> 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