Array indexer characters []

[Richard Robertson 186]

We've got the BASIC syntax everywhere, except in the indexer characters. BASIC uses parenthesis and C/C++/C#/etc uses the brackets. What happened there?

Array[0] = {error for basic, array subscript one for AutoIt}

Array(0) = {array subscript one for BASIC, Func Array($arg) for AutoIt}

What happened there?

[seandisanti 2]

We've got the BASIC syntax everywhere, except in the indexer characters. BASIC uses parenthesis and C/C++/C#/etc uses the brackets. What happened there?

Array[0] = {error for basic, array subscript one for AutoIt}

Array(0) = {array subscript one for BASIC, Func Array($arg) for AutoIt}

What happened there?

i think it's because only the front end of the language that we're using is syntaxually like basic, the workhorse behind the abstraction is still c++ which if i'm not mistaken uses [] instead of (). it is also probably easier for the compiler to parse that way, because parentheses will always mean a function call, and brackets will always mean a subscript. Personally i like having them different because it helps make code more readable even to the human eye.