Template instantiation syntax

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Sat Oct 11 02:59:49 PDT 2008


Bent Rasmussen wrote:
> Parentheses establish context as does semicolons, of course. Still, 
> parantheses are more prominent.
> 
> I hope this drive away from parentheses, which started as a discussion 
> of "shouting vs dotting", doesn't end up with the same approach for 
> function call syntax.
> 
> a!b at c
> 
> Let's look at that for a while, while we ponder the concept of 
> aesthetics. The defense rests.

One could rationally extend the argument to not need parentheses for one 
argument function calls. But, ugh. I don't know why I hate it, but I do.



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