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I think it looks great. Elegant and concise. Programming was never mathematics, anyway. That hasn't stopped the butchering of notation ("=" for assignment, func

• fsloth 10y ago
  Nothing wrong as personal shorthand - but the multiplier effect of understandable notation should not be underestimated. Non-conventional notation strips away the benefit of shorthand notation in collaborative environment - nobody actually can tell what the meaning is just by looking at it without learning it first. If applied generally to software development, using an exotic notation just because it looks nice is risky and of questionable value. New notation is always a huge burden and should be taken into use only if there is some actual benefit other than aesthetics.
  • teddyh 10y ago
    “[…] thy creativity is better used in solving problems than in creating beautiful new impediments to understanding.” — The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.html https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.html)
  • apetresc 10y ago
    Unless I'm missing something, this is just an emacs style, equivalent to a syntax coloring theme. Collaborative environments have nothing to do with it - it will be checked into SCM in the normal way, and the guy running this emacs plugin is the only person who will see the symbols.