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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
>> I just think it's funny that this has even come up and is getting 
>> serious consideration. Walter usually don't like changing the color of 
>> his shed! And D coders are already used to !()
> 
> As Andrei said, I don't write a lot of templates. He does.
> 
> What I'd really like are those funky « and » quote characters. But alas, 
> few keyboards have them on it. (I inserted them here by cutting and 
> pasting from somewhere else, hardly very practical. I could modify my 
> text editor to make it easy, but what about every other ascii text 
> editor people use?)

That's simple. I saw that at work in a nice Smalltalk environment called 
Squeak. People wrote a <- b and the IDE transformed in real time the 
"<-" into a nice arrow.

The compiler accepts both notations. That way the code looks super nice 
and (if using Template{arguments}) is also easy to enter. Plus it 
doesn't look half bad without the embellishment either.


Andrei