foo!(bar) ==> foo{bar}

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
>>
>> Jarrett Billingsley, el  6 de octubre a las 16:04 me escribiste:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Walter Bright
>>> <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The foo.(bar) syntax seems to be sinking. The foo{bar} seems to be the
>>>> most
>>>> practical alternative. So, how about putting it in the next D2 release
>>>> on a
>>>> trial basis, so people can try it out and see how it looks?
>>>>
>>> I guess it's OK but I still don't see why anything has to change.
>>> There are much bigger fish to fry.
>>
>> Amen!
>
> New/potential users are big fish. There has been quite a bit of opinion that
> the Slashed-Eye Sad Guy is offputting at least at first.

And I suppose it's the _emotionally damaging_ appearance of !() that's
putting them off, not the tens/hundreds of poorly-specified
often-buggy template and compile-time features.  Right.

Wait -- in your initial statement, you didn't even mention new users.
You had some cute anecdote about waking up and realizing that all the
template shouting was making you sad or something.  So who exactly is
this "feature" aimed at?