For someone who uses Reddit and HN too much I sure can forget about markdown. The function syntax C++ has seems more like a bandaid around the broken scoping r

For someone who uses Reddit and HN too much I sure can forget about markdown. The function syntax C++ has seems more like a bandaid around the broken scoping rules inherited by C more than anything. If you were writing a replacement it seems like it would be one of your first considerations to make each statement scope limited to the scope of the declaration. I mean, that is what auto is effectively doing in C++ nowadays - you have to evaluate the whole statement to resolve what auto is supposed to be at compile time. I would take consistency of using postfix typing as a sign there is legitimacy and simplicity in compiler design to do so, but I don't think the Python example is particularly fair, since it (and the C++ ->) are both extending a language that already had declaration syntax and thus the kind of glyphic overhead imposed by colons and arrows is less condemnable because they had to maintain backwards compatibility. My gripe boils down to the difference between "August 5th" and "5th of August". The latter can convey the information in a more meaingful sense (you usually care about the day more than the month if you are using both) but it comes with a grammatical overhead "of" that, if were writing and reading a lot of dates of this form, would have a tangible impact on overall reading and writing efficiency. It would of course be minor - that is why its a gripe, and I still love Rust from what I've done with it - but it nags on you like it could have been done better. And I also can understand the concept of name over type, but as someone who strongly favors static typing over dynamic after about five years of Python and three of C++, I think just conceptually "Canister Bob" is easier to parse than "Bob the canister". It is almost certainly just habit, but I justify my appreciation of the habit because it doesn't need to involve those damn conditional constructs (be they the, if, or a colon) that clutter up my reading and writing.