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

[Gide Nwawudu]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 11:51:23 -0400, "Steven Schveighoffer"
<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:

>"Gide Nwawudu" wrote
>> On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:12:31 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu
>> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> 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
>>
>> The current syntax '!()' and guillemets '«»' might be the way to go.
>> The good thing about guilements is they can be highlighted in a text
>> editor or IDE as a different colour and this makes templates stand
>> out, but it is shame that guilements aren't on a UK keyboard.
>>
>> alias DenseMatrix«num» PulType;
>> alias SparseRowsMatrix«num,HashSparseVector» PuuType;
>> alias BiMap«uint, Tuple«uint,uint», BiMapOptions.lhDense» DicType;
>>
>> See it doesn't look too bad.
>
>Maybe its your choice of parameter names, but this looks aboslutely awful :(
>
>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.
>
>-Steve 
>
The IDE/editor highlights the guillemets in a differnet colour,
because unlike brackets, this is easily done without affecting other
expressions. It does look ok.

Gide