On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Graydon Hoare <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On this point, at least, I'd welcome a straw poll. Just to figure exactly
> how much everyone thinks "most programmers will balk" at "v:T" rather than
> "T v". Look at these examples and decide:
>
> fn push(&T[] v, T e) -> T[] {
> let T[] u = v + [e];
> ret u;
> }
>
> fn push(v: &T[], e: T) : T[] {
> let u: T[] = v + [e];
> ret u;
> }
>
I asked three C# programmers what they thought of the second example and two
said 'looks like F#', which I took to be a positive sign. The other sort of
wrinkled his nose. FWIW, I like the colons for reasons previously stated.
-Brian
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