If the language doesn't expose pointers, then that's an abstraction leak. Even if it does, why must that dictate the syntax and semantics? I'm sure our compiler

If the language doesn't expose pointers, then that's an abstraction leak. Even if it does, why must that dictate the syntax and semantics? I'm sure our compilers and interpreters are capable of turning arr[i] into *arr + (i + 1)