On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Dean Thompson
<[email protected]>wrote:

> I expect it would, but at the expense of no longer being able to make as
> simple a statement in the language tutorial as this:
>
>   The notation 'foo means a lifetime called "foo".
>
> To me, it seems nicer for a newbie to wonder "how is that lifetime being
> used?" than to wonder "what's that thing after the dot?"
>
> Dean
>


True; however, is it worth to introduce more visual noise in order to be
able to make a statement like that in the tutorial? At least the dot
operator is not being used for package scopes, like Java or C# for instance.

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Ziad
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