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

[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

Vincent Richomme wrote:
> Steven Schveighoffer a écrit :
>>
>> 1. The user comes from a Java/C++/C#/etc. background and has the same 
>> initial reaction I had.  Then, depending on their personality, they 
>> get defensively angry or say, 'oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense!' 
>> and are done with it.  I'm guessing the latter would be more common.
>>
> I agree I was shocked by the syntax at first glance ... and it still 
> very difficult to read D templates. Hope I will get used to it ;-)
> But if you ask lots of developpers what is the meaning of this symbol I 
> am quite sure they will never imagine it could be related to templates.
> 
> 

How is curly braces different here? I think of some scope when I see them, certainly not 
template parameters.

I too thought wth? when I first read the D spec, but coming from C++ and having hit the issues 
with <> several times it made a lot of sense to do something else.

IMHO {} is not it!