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

[Robert Fraser]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 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

So we'd be writing LinkedList<-HashMap<-int, Tuple<-char[], double->->->
That's not so bad, ackshully.