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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> 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.

Well there's work being on both. Again, this particular nit does not 
require a lot of implementation work.

> 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?

I didn't, but I also didn't claim that new users were my motivator all 
along.


Andrei