On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:18:18PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:12 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> > Nothing's bad about '[]' per se. What's better, but possibly out
> > of the reach of our current lexing and parsing system, would be
> > things like:
> >
> > [1::int, 10)
>
> That's been discussed before. Aside from the parser issues (which
> are formidable) it would break brace-matching in most if not all
> commonly used editors.
That being the situation, ubiquitous support for the natural syntax
looks like it's a decade away, minimum. :(
Trying to be cheery,
David.
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