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

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Gide Nwawudu wrote:
> 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

What if I want to program in notepad.exe?