On Saturday, 13 January 2018 at 20:57:31 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 13.01.2018 21:39, rjframe wrote:
Python and Pony use (). C++17 uses [].
Any idea why C++17 went with [] ?
Perhaps D should use <>? [not a
serious question]
It was hard for me not to use angled brackets for templates
when I started
with D, but now it's second nature. I think you're right,
familiarity with
other languages is important, but it isn't everything.
...
I'd like to stress again that the proposed syntax is standard.
I'm not sure I like the idea of ever reading `foo((a, b),
c);`, but like
templates, I'd get used to it.
It would actually be unsatisfying to have two distinct ways to
group together a heterogeneous list (Tuples vs. function
argument lists.)
foo((a, b), c);
auto args = ((a, b), c);
foo(args);
Yeah. Consider the implications for UFCS: you'd want both (a,
b).foo(c) and ((a, b), c).foo() to work.