Might you be referencing the sigils (@ and ~), because thry've been gone for a few years now. The syntax is light and clean, eschewing redundencies like parens

Might you be referencing the sigils (@ and ~), because thry've been gone for a few years now. The syntax is light and clean, eschewing redundencies like parens around if conditions. More lifetime inference and non-lexical lifetimes help to clean it up even more.