To summarize the thread so far: - parenthesis is a no-no - angle brackets are popular/common but that alone doesn't make good argument. some languages have already deviated. scala is popular, uses square instead of angle brackets. - go's current pseudo-generic data structure, the map, already uses the square bracket (e.g. map[int]int), a vote for square brackets. internal syntax consistency is key.
On Wed 15 Jul 2020 at 23:04 'Dan Kortschak' via golang-nuts < golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 14:36 -0700, Randall O'Reilly wrote: > > And the use of [ ] in map is more semantically associated with its > > conventional use as an element accessor in arrays / slices, not with > > some more general kind of type parameter. > > The [] syntax can be viewed as an indexing operation perfectly well in > the context of generics; a generic function or type is a map of > implementations or types and so the [] syntax is a type index into that > map, just as map[T1]T2 is a type index into the builtin generic map > type. This is not mental stretch. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/abe84ff5abefe2815137bea9cb83eb9e8d5fdafb.camel%40kortschak.io > . > -- *Curried programmer* *Homepage*: http://yawboakye.com I'm tweeting <https://twitter.com/@22bytes> when I'm not coding <https://github.com/yawboakye> when I'm not holding my niece. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAPJoGXsM%2BuzfS_2sNBXP2d4z%3DvC-2gHOu_QS%3DL3PSQKkx6_drg%40mail.gmail.com.
