shouting versus dotting

[Michel Fortin]

On 2008-10-05 01:14:17 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu 
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:

> I don't favor "." any more than the next guy, but I am glad there is 
> awareness of how unfit a choice "!" is. If you have any ideas, please 
> post them! Ah! I! Exclaimed! Again!

Hum, I don't think we have much choice, it'll have to be something in this lot:

	Positive!(real)(joke);
	Positive.(real)(joke);
	Positive#(real)(joke);
	Positive@(real)(joke);
	Positive&(real)(joke);
	Positive`(real)(joke);
	Positive´(real)(joke);
	Positive^(real)(joke);
	Positive¨(real)(joke);
	Positive\(real)(joke);

Anything else I forgot?

Or we could use special delimiter characters:

	Positive<real>(joke);
	Positive“real”(joke);
	Positive«real»(joke);
	Positive#real@(joke);

Each having its own problem though.

My preference still goes to "!(".

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The ".(" syntax makes me think more of something like this:

	void func(T, alias methodOfT, A...)(T obj, A args)
	{
		obj.(methodOfT)(args);
	}

which I which I could do. If methodOfT was a string, I suppose I could 
use string mixins, but it pushes diagnostics about misnamed methods 
further in the template and requires adding quotes to the template 
parameter when instanciating.

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