But Scala doesn’t use [] for anything else - Go does.
> On Jul 15, 2020, at 9:58 AM, 'Nic Long' via golang-nuts
> <golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Square brackets work great. Scala uses them for generics to great effect.
> They also make me think of Clojure, which introduced them to Lisp for similar
> reasons to here - to avoid too much overload of regular parentheses - and
> which people have been very happy with.
>
>> On Wednesday, 15 July 2020 at 08:37:15 UTC+1 ba...@iitbombay.org wrote:
>> As I wrote, parentheses are not needed for the common case of single type
>> parameter. If you have more than one, you need parentheses but note that
>> this
>> is a *prefix* and any parsing ambiguities can removed by using a - if
>> needed.
>> For your example it will be something like
>>
>> (float64,int)PowN(1.2, 3)
>>
>> It’s just a syntax change. There is zero semantic difference from the
>> current
>> proposal. I just tried to get idea across - I can work out a complete set of
>> syntax rule changes if there is sufficient interest but the gen rule will be
>> something like
>>
>> gen-type-decl: gen-prefix type-decl;
>> gen-func-decl: gen-prefix func-decl;
>> gen-prefix: “gen” typeX-list
>> typeX-list: typeX | typeX-list “,” typeX ;
>> typeX: NAME [constraint] ;
>>
>> > On Jul 15, 2020, at 12:01 AM, 'Dan Kortschak' via golang-nuts
>> > <golan...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > How do these deal with non-type determined uses. Say you have (by any
>> > spelling)
>> >
>> > gen F,I func PowN(a F, b I) F {...}
>> >
>> > How do you specify the type of F or I when say you have untyped
>> > constants. This still requires parens or other markings to indicate the
>> > actual types of F and I. It seems many of the comments here complaining
>> > about brackets and such are ignoring this aspect of the current
>> > proposal.
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