Array Slice Ranges

[BCS]

Don Clugston wrote:
> rm wrote:
> 
>>
>> well if compiler issues are no issues, than the most explicit would be:
>>
>> array[1 .. 5] == 1,2,3,4,5
>> array]1 .. 5] ==   2,3,4,5
>> array[1 .. 5[ == 1,2,3,4
>> array]1 .. 5[ ==   2,3,4
>>
>> roel
> 
> 
> so a[b[1..5].length]
> 
> would become a[b]1..4[.length]
> ??

Nice one.

actually I think it would be

a[b]0..4[.length]

I think one big killer is that syntax highlighting would be darn near 
impossible. Just try to get the brace matching working.


  .--------------.
  | .----.       |
  | |    |       |
a[b]0..4[.length]


same for the math version

  .--------------.
  | .----.       |
  | |    |       |
a[b[1..5).length]

[ matching ) ??

or what about eyeball parsing?

foo( a[i..2), fn(a2..i]);

what is that supposed to be?
it is darn close to:

foo( a[i..2]), fn(a[2..i]);

and both would compile.