Bracket notation for collections (original) (raw)

Mark Thornton mthornton at optrak.co.uk
Wed Mar 25 13:53:52 PDT 2009

I notice that Joe Darcy has this on his todo list. I wonder if it might stretch to something like this:

interface Matrix2d { @arrayGet double get(int i, int j); @arraySet void set(int i, int j, double value); }

Matrix2d m; double z = m[1,2];

m[2,4] = 2*z;

Would the use of annotations for such a purpose be permitted?

Regards, Mark Thornton