This article completely loses me at the end where it suggests that using square brackets for assignment and collection access is an unnecessary/dangerous convenience.
It might not be the author's preference, but the argument made about it getting abandoned as the language ages anyway is demonstrably false with the most popular languages in the world (Python, JavaScript, Java, C, C++), and in languages with operator overloading it could never be true no matter how far the language evolved.
It might not be the author's preference, but the argument made about it getting abandoned as the language ages anyway is demonstrably false with the most popular languages in the world (Python, JavaScript, Java, C, C++), and in languages with operator overloading it could never be true no matter how far the language evolved.