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

[Steven Schveighoffer]

"superdan" wrote
> Frank Benoit Wrote:
>
>> Tomas Lindquist Olsen schrieb:
>> > Walter Bright 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 personally think it's a bad idea.
>> >
>> > I have a danish keyboard layout:
>> >
>> > { == AltGr+7
>> > } == AltGr+0
>> >
>> > parenthesis are easier to type, as they just use shift.
>> > This isn't really that big a problem, I already have to do it in other
>> > places, but this is just one more... I actually like the current syntax
>> > better though!
>> >
>> > Just my 2 cents on this bikeshed color!
>>
>> Same on a german keyboard. This is why I changed all my keyboards to
>> US-English, because it is easier in C-like programming.
>
> oh yeah? on my keyboard all chars come with cedilla umlaut three accents 
> and the saint sign in angstrom. all at once. to type a normal char i have 
> to press ctrl ctrl alt alt shift fn and keep my toes curled up. and when i 
> was lil i had measles. and walked to school in waist deep snow. uphill 
> both ways.

To be honest, I sort of agree with superdan.  If you are going to be 
programming, and your keyboard doesn't let you easily type '{}', it sounds 
like you just bought the wrong keyboard.  Java, C#, C/C++, D, etc. all use 
curly braces to denote blocks of code.  I guess Danish and German keyboard 
developers aren't expecting their people to program in decent programming 
languages?

Kinda shortsighted if you ask me...

-Steve