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That would have been a criminal waste of a very valuable pair of matched ASCII brackets. C++ ran out of ASCII brackets (because of using them for blocks), was f
by StefanKarpinski 7y ago
That would have been a criminal waste of a very valuable pair of matched ASCII brackets. C++ ran out of ASCII brackets (because of using them for blocks), was forced to co-opt inequality operators for templates, and has suffered from terribly fragile syntax as a result.
- mruts 7y agoI mean, you could use \ and / for type parameters. Or even parens (Julia doesn't support Scala like double parameter lists as far as I know). What makes Julia so unique that it needs to make different choices than virtually every other modern language? (See my above comment for more clarification).