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

[Joe Darcy]

Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
> 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  

The average Java programmer is not asked to evaluate the semantics of a 
new, incomplete, in-progress potential language feature.

A fraction of the 100 or so messages sent to the list on this matter 
over the last two days would have been sufficient to advance 
understanding of the problem and its possible solutions.

-Joe

> 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
> 
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> 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
>>
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