Perhaps another source of resistance to < > is the trauma many of us have from its major obfuscation of C++ code?
- Randy > On Jul 15, 2020, at 3:13 PM, Yaw Boakye <wheres...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 when I'm not coding 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. -- 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/2A62BAF3-6D6E-45B2-A3DE-824AA784724D%40colorado.edu.
