I don't think there's any real risk of guillemets ever being adopted. But since this appears to be a serious proposal...
Even as a European programmer using a custom keyboard with programmable firmware and layout (so essentially the optimal target audience for the proposal) it seems cruel and unusual. I started learning Go almost ten years ago because I wanted to learn something new and looked at the various "new on the block" languages at that time. If Go had required a specific magic editor/config or unusual keyboard layout it would have been a hard pass. Having this as a requirement on new programmers seems absurd, I think. //kb On 18 Jul 2020, at 21:11, Jon Conradt <j...@theconradts.com<mailto:j...@theconradts.com>> wrote: It is a serious suggestion. Our editors are flexible enough to allow us to use control keys to generate these characters. Our ethnocentric, ASCII limited view of programming languages would benefit from more flexibility when it increases readability. Jon Jon Conradt —————— j...@theconradts.com<mailto:j...@theconradts.com> Https://go.theconradts.com/patents ________________________________ From: Yaw Boakye <wheres...@gmail.com<mailto:wheres...@gmail.com>> Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2020 10:43:11 AM To: Jon Conradt <j...@theconradts.com<mailto:j...@theconradts.com>> Cc: golang-nuts <golang-nuts@googlegroups.com<mailto:golang-nuts@googlegroups.com>> Subject: Re: [go-nuts] Re: Generics and parentheses I don't know if the recommendation to use guillamets is out of spite for the ongoing deliberations. But if it's a serious recommendation, then can some recommend where I can buy one of these European keyboards? On top of that, I could start a business selling European keyboards to Go programmers in Africa who want to use generics, where American keyboards (or keyboard with mostly ASCII characters) are common. On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 4:56 PM Jon Conradt <j...@theconradts.com<mailto:j...@theconradts.com>> wrote: In the spirit of “show me, don’t tell me” and experience reports. How hard would it be to release a beta which supports both [] and guillamets? We try them. We see where we have compatibility problems. We give editor writers and plugin writers a chance to simplify they keystrokes? Jon On Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 11:37:21 PM UTC-4 Ian Lance Taylor wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 7:45 PM Watson Ladd <watso...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Guillamets are worth consideration. They are common on European keyboards and > avoid all the syntax ambiguities. https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/design/go2draft-type-parameters.md#why-not-use Ian -- 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<mailto:golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/af5929bc-2e49-48dc-a1bc-3a9a7ef63051n%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/af5929bc-2e49-48dc-a1bc-3a9a7ef63051n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- Curried programmer Homepage: http://yawboakye.com<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<mailto:golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/MW3PR20MB3308FF96CE53CF63D9E6FE0EAC7D0%40MW3PR20MB3308.namprd20.prod.outlook.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/MW3PR20MB3308FF96CE53CF63D9E6FE0EAC7D0%40MW3PR20MB3308.namprd20.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/F6A41A04-BDBC-46C2-A8C9-0B8D19BF4DC5%40kastelo.net.
