shouting versus dotting

[Christopher Wright]

Derek Parnell wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:12:06 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>> Word followed by exclamation mark. Our brains are wired to interpret that as an 
>> exclamation. If it's frequent enough in code, it becomes really jarring.
> 
> I too find the form ...
> 
>    Template!(arg1, arg2, arg3)
> 
> a bit uncomfortable.
> 
> If we need to visually distinguish templates (compile-time constructs) from
> run-time constructs, I would advocate a totally different style all
> together. Maybe something more along the lines of the DDoc style ...
> 
>   @(Template arg1 arg2 arg3)
> 
> Nested it would look like ...
> 
>   @(This @(That @(TheOther crap)))
> 
> But I'm being too left-field, I suspect.
> 

It's actually a lot quicker to type @( than !( -- it's reasonable for me 
to use the same shift key for the @ and the (. So I wouldn't much 
complain about this, except for the ugliness. And !( is also ugly.