"with" still sucks + removing features + adding features

[Bill Baxter]

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

--bb