C++ Resyntaxed

[Bill Baxter]

bearophile wrote:
> This is a short article I have just found on Reddit that shows a possible alternative syntax for C++:
> "A Modest Proposal: C++ Resyntaxed", Ben Werther & Damian Conway:
> http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/HTML/ModestProposal.html
> 
> It says:
>> The language was designed to ensure that the new syntax was LALR(1) parsable, grammatically unambiguous and required no semantic feedback from parser to tokenizer.<
> 
> That reminds me of D :-)

I find it interesting that they simplify the language by *adding* at 
least 5 new keywords, maybe more even.

Take that all you keyword accountants!  More keywords == simpler!

Although I have to admit, even *I* think they're going a little 
overboard when they define "pre" and "post" as keywords just to allow 
creating the operator overloads "operator pre ++" and "operator post 
++".  Surely there's a way to improve that syntax without introducing 
two whole new keywords.  Like "operator <>++" and "operator ++<>" or 
some such.

--bb