Key-Value Operators on Array

[Philip Mötteli]

Hi


Usually, every key-value operation, that is applied to an array, is 
applied to its contents. So the array is actually transparent.
There are certain exceptions though:

 @avg
 @count
 @distinctUnionOfArrays
 @distinctUnionOfObjects
 @max
 @min
 @sum
 @unionOfArrays
 @unionOfObjects


They are all marked by a preceding '@'. All these operators are sent to 
the array object itself and not to the objects it contains.

My question, proposal is: Why not use this '@' as a general mark, that 
an operator should be sent to the array itself? Not restrict its use to 
these few mentionned predefined operators?
This wouldn't be a problem for code written for Cocoa. Cocoa would just 
not have that feature and (probably) raise an exception.

Or is there perhaps another way to do that and I'm just missing 
something?


Re
Phil