Re: aset/aref for char-tables, range-tables etc.

Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: > > > >>> Python's [] is much more than array access: it's a syntactic shorthand >>> for __getitem__/__setitem__, and it's these generic concepts that we >>> lack. If we do introduce them, they should work on all kinds of >>> objects (e.g. hash tables and lists), and in that case we should >>> choose names better than aref/aset, because those concepts are quite >>> detached from traditional meanings of "array". >>> >>> >> >> is there any reason that aset/aref couldn't be extended semantically >> to be the equivalent of python's [] (which, after all, was also >> originally an "array reference" syntax)? >> > > > > btw Hrvoje could you *PLEASE* *PLEASE* not remove my name from the Cc: list? afaik it is now considered very bad netiquette to do that; removing duplicate mails on your end is trivial using procmail. you should not be kludging around a bug and messing up people like me in the process.