On Saturday, 14 December 2013 at 20:00:30 UTC, Brian Rogoff wrote:
Composite brackets, a-la the SPECS 'C++ Resyntaxed' **
proposal, would work. <[]>, <[<[]>]> may be a bit heavy but not
too bad.
I haven't found the !() syntax for D templates to be a problem
though and prefer it to <> from C++ and Java. If I were
searching for D blemishes, I wouldn't look there first.
-- Brian
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http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/ModestProposal.html
I'd like to note that I _loved_ that paper the first time I read
it. I actually saved it to my Dropbox to refer back to if I ever
decided to write my own language. But composite brackets honestly
seem a bit too heavy, like you said. When I saw D's usage of an
infix !, I was more intrigued. Especially after the ()s were made
optional when the template instantiation was a single token long.
Very convenient to type and, more importantly, read IMO.
