Nested index operator overloading

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ID:2323508

Dec 9 2017, 8:22 pm (Edited on Dec 10 2017, 6:45 pm)

Metamorphman

Applies to:

Dream Maker

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Open

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An addition to operator[] and operator[]= for handling nested indexes, each passed as a parameter.

For example:
thing["x"]["y"]["z"] translates to thing.operator[]("x", "y", "z")

Dec 9 2017, 9:17 pm
Somepotato	I don't see this as being very feasible but it'd be interesting to have

Jan 5 2018, 4:39 pm
IainPeregrine	I was halfway through my /grid object definition when I realized this wasn't possible. I was trying to do grid(x,y) except with [] instead of () because we don't have () overloading, when I realized operator[] doesn't work with multiple arguments. Would be nice to have.