Is [] mandatory for array operations?

[Robert Jacques]

On Thu, 06 May 2010 20:57:07 -0400, Michel Fortin  
<michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote:

> On 2010-05-06 19:02:03 -0400, Jason House <jason.james.house at gmail.com>  
> said:
>
>> Don Wrote:
>>
>>>  x[] = sin(y[]);
>>  I strongly favor the first syntax since it matches how I'd write it in  
>> a for loop.
>> i.e. I'd replace [] with [i].
>
> This is the best way to see array operations I've read up to now:  
> replace [] with [i], i being the current loop index. It's so simple to  
> explain.
>
>
>> If there was a sin variant that took array input, then I'd expect the  
>> line to be:
>>   x[] = sin(y)[]
>>  which would translate to creating a temporary to hold sin(y) array.
>
> Makes sense too.

this:
for(int i = 0; i < x.length; i++) {
     x[i] = sin(y)[i];
}

makes sense?