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I don't find his arguments about things like the double colon at all convincing. They just seem like arbitrary subjective points that you could take almost any
by antonvs 7y ago
I don't find his arguments about things like the double colon at all convincing. They just seem like arbitrary subjective points that you could take almost any position on and claim it's a principle. It seems like a weird kind of bikeshedding for a language designer (as opposed to an overly opinionated user) to have such strong, yet clearly arbitrary, positions on.
Besides, this is a language that likes to surround special identifiers with double underscores, which is almost objectively ugly.
- jstimpfle 7y agoOne thing, he pointed out that his objection to the double colon is not why he rejected the proposal. Another thing, reading closely I think what he wanted to say (but maybe failed to communicate clearly) is that the double colon is a problematic lexical choice because in the slice syntax, it's already possible to have two colons in a row, but these should be lexed as separate tokens!