"with" still sucks + removing features + adding features

[Derek Parnell]

On Mon, 18 May 2009 21:30:41 -0700, Bill Baxter wrote:

> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Derek Parnell <derek at psych.ward> wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 May 2009 23:02:37 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>>> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 18 May 2009 21:47:01 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Derek Parnell wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 18 May 2009 19:31:23 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I completely disagree that that's a special case. ".." is punctuation.
>>>>>>> You can't pretend punctuation has the same meaning everywhere in a
>>>>>>> programming language.
>>>>>> I'm a bit confused. Are you saying that one must expect that the meaning of
>>>>>> punctuation in a programming language depends on the context the
>>>>>> punctuation is found in?
>>>>> How many meanings does '[' have in your favorite programming language?
>>>>
>>>> One.
>>>
>>> No.
>>
>> But you never asked for the name of my favourite language?
> 
> Does it have string or character literals?  Then there's probably at
> least two meanings.  ;-P

Huh? "two meanings" of '['   ... is that what you are saying?

Ok, the language has both string literals and character literals, so how
does that imply that '[' has two meanings?

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