Re: [Vala] Feature request: Syntactic sugar to map foo[index] to foo.get(index)

["Dr. Michael Lauer" <mickey vanille-media de>]

Am 01.03.2010 um 11:21 schrieb Frederik:

> Jürg Billeter wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 03:31 -0600, Sandino Flores Moreno wrote:
> > > I noticed that Vala allows with Gee sequences the next mapping:
> > >    array_list[index]    --->     array_list.get(index)
> > >
> > > However, shouldn't it be possible in non-gee objects?
> >
> > This is already the case, there is nothing Gee-specific in the compiler
> > (with the exception of the Genie parser).
> >
> > Jürg
>
> Can you give us a list of the compile-time "duck typing" protocols?
>
> Iterator<T> iterator ()       -> 'foreach'
> T? next_value ()              -> alternative 'foreach' iterator protocol
>
> T get (int index)             -> indexer access ('[index]')

What about the string lookup, i.e. gee's foo["bar"] ?

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