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

[KennyTM~]

Robert Fraser wrote:
> 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.

I think T<-1     -> is a bit confusing.

(I had suggested \<...\> somewhere in the Positive thread but {...} is 
better.)