[clean-list] why is the notation for list and array indexing different?

[terrence.x.brannon at jpmchase.com]

Of course, the same question applies to why drawing from a List uses <- 
but drawing from an Array uses <-:

It does not seem necessary to have syntactic distnction.

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[clean-list] why is the notation for list and array indexing    different?







What motivated distinct notation for list indexing (MyList !! i) versus 
array indexing (MArray.[2] )? 

You would think that it would simply be overloaded. 

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