On Monday 09 November 2015 13:29:30 you wrote: > It is ugly, but you can wrap it to function - so still I don't see any > reason, why it is necessary For example, I'm writing a lot of queries by hands... This functionality is available in many languages and it's just convenient. Of course it is possible and without it, but why?
New symbols increase a complexity of our code and our documentation.
If some functionality can be implemented via functions without performance impacts, we should not to create new operators or syntax - mainly for corner use cases.
I can understand, so current system of accessing array data has some disadvantage - the behave was designed twenty years ago, when the arrays didn't support NULLs, but I am not sure, if introduction secondary accessing system helps. Probably not.
Regards
Pavel
Regards
Pavel
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