Template instantiation syntax

[Christopher Wright]

Kyle Furlong wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> We seem to have reached a dead end on finding a significantly better 
>> alternative than foo!(bar).
>>
>> All is not lost, though. Andrei is working on an emacs module that 
>> will parse D code and replace foo!(bar) with foo«bar» for display only 
>> when the editor is in D mode, the underlying text will still be 
>> foo!(bar). (This doesn't affect D at all, only its display in Emacs.)
>>
>> Also, we're going to try using ! for single argument syntax, as in:
>>
>> foo!bar  is same as   foo!(bar)
>> foo!10   is same as   foo!(10)
>>
>> etc. 0 arguments or more than 1 argument or arguments that are more 
>> than one token long will still require !( ). We'll see how that works. 
>> I think it looks rather nice.
> 
> Is it just me or is foo!bar uglier than foo!(bar)? Maybe I'm just used 
> to the tried and true syntax.

Uglier and more ambiguous.