shouting versus dotting

[Alexander Pánek]

Christopher Wright wrote:
> 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.

Since I only use the left shift key, it’s equally quick to type for me. 
I don’t see much point in basing syntax on how fast you can type. Also, 
on German keyboard layouts (and I think lots of other non-us based, 
European layouts), the @ is at Compose + q, which is pretty uncomfortable.