Am Samstag, den 21.03.2009, 11:59 +0100 schrieb John Holdsworth: > I was wondering if it would be a useful extension to Objective-C > expand the [] operator > to support array and hash references to NSArray and NSDictionary > classes directly to > greatly improve the readability of code:
I'm not an ObjC front end maintainer and have no authority but one issue I would have with this feature with gcc proper is that the ObjC front end would have to learn about the semantics of "NSArray" and "NSDictionary" which are actually not part of the language but part of an external library. Now gcc already supports the -fconstant-string-class option as one way to embed knowledge about an external library into an executable. But I would like adding options with all these semantics from a foreign library into the language implementation. Maybe this could be done more elegantly with plugin infrastructure that that es being currently added: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/plugins Cheers, David
