Would using a dot '.' instead of a quote ' also resolve the ambiguity,
without introducing an extra sigil into the language?
&{.lt}T
T{.lt}
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Ziad
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Benjamin Striegel
<[email protected]>wrote:
> +1 to this. Option 8 was always the best-case syntax, and prefixing an
> apostrophe on lifetime names is entirely inoffensive.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Niko Matsakis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Interesting. That would indeed address the ambiguity issue.
>>
>>
>> Niko
>>
>>
>> Sanghyeon Seo wrote:
>>
>>> UtherII on Reddit /r/rust suggested an idea I like:
>>>
>>> &{'lt} T
>>> T{'lt}
>>>
>>> Basically "option 8" of http://smallcultfollowing.com/**
>>> babysteps/blog/2012/12/30/**lifetime-notation/<http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/12/30/lifetime-notation/>
>>> with ' from https://mail.mozilla.org/**pipermail/rust-dev/2013-**
>>> January/002942.html<https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-January/002942.html>
>>>
>>> This does need a lookahead but as far as I can tell unambiguous and
>>> manageable. More on:
>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/**comments/17ka3b/meeting_**
>>> weekly_20130129_region_syntax_**impl_type/c86t7wg<http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/17ka3b/meeting_weekly_20130129_region_syntax_impl_type/c86t7wg>
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