On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Fil Mackay <f...@vertigotechnology.com>wrote:
> We need some more pair sets () <> {} [] in the charset that allow nesting.
>
This is one of the fundamental difficulties of language design. I believe
Guy Steele said something to that effect once, so this not a new
difficulty. And why it's criminal to waste { } on block scoping the way C
and its descendants do. Clearly C++ needed that extra bracket pair since it
had to abuse < and > in terrible ways as both comparisons and brackets.
Anyway, this is getting a bit far afield from the original issue. Changing
backtick syntax or quoting syntax just isn't necessary, so both are going
to stay as they are. Macro hygiene is a different question.
