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Re:Fortran is still a thing by std_throwawayay on Saturday December 01, 2018 @04:51AM (#18576106)
Using Matrix[i,j] is the most intuitive way for most people. It's what you'd use if you don't know anything and it's what you'd understand immediately. That's the benefit for the user.
Re:Fortran is still a thing by AndrewGaspar on Sunday December 02, 2018 @10:13PM (#18586087)
And to be honest, in the list of things that the C++ folks seems to think is important, multi-index index operators seems like it would rank substantially higher than a lot of the other things in the list in terms of value, and a lot lower in-terms of additional complexity.