We seem to agree and disagree on a number of things but I was thinking of one specific use of the new syntax as described on SO[1]. Here, I believe that the new

We seem to agree and disagree on a number of things but I was thinking of one specific use of the new syntax as described on SO[1]. Here, I believe that the new syntax is clearly easier to use and consistency can be a good thing. By the way, with this syntax the return type is still spelled out so it shouldn't matter IMO. [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/22515589/862288 http://stackoverflow.com/a/22515589/862288