Template instantiation syntax

[bearophile]

Walter Bright:
> Also, we're going to try using ! for single argument syntax, as in:
> foo!bar  is same as   foo!(bar)
> foo!10   is same as   foo!(10)

And what's the advantage of such special casing of the syntax? Just to remove 2 chars () that improves clarity? I am for using shorter syntaxes in D, but not in that way. If you want to reduce the length of D programs make the semicolons optional, introduce eager and lazy array comprehensions, try to introduce a lambda syntax like the C# one, etc.

Bye,
bearophile