imo, those @'s (or monkeys, as we like to call them) are a sore pain in the eye. And what if you need to do some simple arithmetic with the numbered arguments?
someFunc!(@1+1>@2)(x); Might be a silly example, but code like this could exist and will be confusing. On 12/19/10, Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/19/10, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote: >> Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>> Yes, because in practice "a>b" must end up being evaluated in the wrong >>> scope. I've used std.algorithm very little so far, and yet I've still >>> found >>> that limitation to be a problem. >> >> ..and if you're going beyond that, >> there's >> the fuller, complete syntax. >> > > Exactly. Inventing a whole new syntax or borrowing some kind of > functional-language style syntax would only alienate those already > familiar with C syntax. >
