Hi Didier, I appreciate your recent interest in Julia, and especially that you've uncovered a few inconsistencies/bugs that have been addressed, and I've found many of your questions thought provoking.
That said, when it comes to opinions and holy wars, we very much like it more peaceful around here. Specifically, we discourage things like calling someone's opinion "wrong" or "mistaken". It's certainly ok to disagree, but please do so respectfully. Facts, of course, are subject to verification. ;-) (I realize that much of what you wrote was tongue in cheek, and I'm not taking exception with what you wrote--just how it was said.) Cheers, Kevin On Saturday, May 7, 2016, Didier Verna <didier.ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > DNF <oyv...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > It is very clear and explicit, there is no doubt as to what it means, > > unlike '}' which is way too small and ambiguous (does it mean end of > > block, or end of dict definition, etc.), and just does not jump out at > > you the way it should. > > 'end' is extremely verbose, just like 'function', 'global', 'local' etc. > > You are also wrong about the curly brace's ambiguity. If you find it > ambiguous, that is because you live in a world overflown with > syntax. You don't need end of blocks or dict definitions to be > different things. You only really need an end of /expression/. And > BTW, I have a hard time figuring out why 'end' wouldn't be ambiguous > while '}' would be, especially since 'end' ends so many different > things in Julia. > > Finally you are also mistaken about the size (yes, size matters). The > curly brace isn't too small. It's too big. It's too noisy. See this > little nasty peak in the middle, on the right? It's aggressive, it's > impolite, it hurts my eyes. > > No, really, the only 'end' that makes sense, should be soft, discreet, > gentle, almost invisible, in perfect harmony with the > Universe. There's only one candidate. It's... the right parenthesis > ')'. > > -- > ELS'16, May 9-10, Krakow, Poland: http://www.european-lisp-symposium.org > > Lisp, Jazz, Aïkido: http://www.didierverna.info >
