The post explains that 'a[i]' can easily enough be written as 'a i'. Your suggestions do not resemble the current function application syntax in the language di

The post explains that 'a[i]' can easily enough be written as 'a i'. Your suggestions do not resemble the current function application syntax in the language discussed in the post. The question is not whether a terse slice syntax can exist (clearly it can), but whether a syntactic similarity between indexing and application can also be extended to a syntactic similarity between slicing and application.