Is [] mandatory for array operations?

[Robert Jacques]

On Thu, 06 May 2010 16:54:48 -0400, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>  
wrote:
> Johan Granberg:
>> Matlab is doing
>> this in a very nice way and it is far from all uses that requiers  
>> optimal
>> speed.
>
> Some parts of the Chapel language are exceptionally well designed, and  
> deserve to be stolen. For numerical computations it looks far better  
> than Fortress.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Do you have some specific examples in mind?