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

[Denis Koroskin]

On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:00:54 +0400, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> Alexander Pánek wrote:
>> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> "Alexander Pánek" wrote
>>>> Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>>>>> Everything runs together, looks like one big word.  I think we need  
>>>>> a full height character to represent template brackets, something  
>>>>> with a lot of whitespace to separate it from the other characters.
>>>> Heh... sounds like !() to me! ;)
>>>
>>> *gasp*  That's perfect!  I say we go with it ;)
>>  Has my vote, for sure!
>
> One possibility to make progress would be to keep !( but allow omitting  
> the parens when only one argument is being passed. That way many  
> instantiations will be helped. For example, in wake of the impending  
> demise of complex built-ins:
>
> Complex!double alpha;
> Complex!float[] data;
>
> That way, again, we leverage the fact that an extra symbol is needed  
> instead of compulsively requiring it in addition of the parens.
>
> One nice thing about this change is that it keeps all code as it is,  
> just lifts one restriction.
>
> How about that?
>
>
> Andrei

What is Complex!float[] - Complex!(float)[] or Complex!(float[])?