On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Dean Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, Niko's ${foo}bar notation helps my mental "parser" a great deal, > because it > makes foo look like a modifier to me. When I see &foo/bar, my mind fights > to make > it a pointer to foo with a strange trailing bar.
+1 to this. I haven't been able to articulate why &foo/bar feels unnatural to me, but this is probably it. It's hard to intuit by looking at it which half is what, and why it is that way instead of the reverse. That, and my brain tries to interpret it as division, or something for which division is a good metaphor, and it doesn't lead anywhere. (I don't mean to harp on the issue, I already commented about it at Niko's blog.) -- Your ship was destroyed in a monadic eruption. _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
