Template instantiation syntax
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Sat Oct 11 02:59:49 PDT 2008
Bent Rasmussen wrote:
> Parentheses establish context as does semicolons, of course. Still,
> parantheses are more prominent.
>
> I hope this drive away from parentheses, which started as a discussion
> of "shouting vs dotting", doesn't end up with the same approach for
> function call syntax.
>
> a!b at c
>
> Let's look at that for a while, while we ponder the concept of
> aesthetics. The defense rests.
One could rationally extend the argument to not need parentheses for one
argument function calls. But, ugh. I don't know why I hate it, but I do.
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