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Interesting perspective. FWIW a lot of modern languages now have put the types on the left for a good reason, it's a lot easier to parse. Plus for a reader, at
by rtoway 5y ago
Interesting perspective. FWIW a lot of modern languages now have put the types on the left for a good reason, it's a lot easier to parse. Plus for a reader, at least in Rust, wherever you see a `:` you know that a type is coming after. For the other stuff, I don't know, I got used to it pretty quickly. Not that much of a big deal in my opinion
- still_grokking 5y agoThe "symbol: Type" notation is the "scientific" one for programming languages since "forever". It's not that "modern" languages are doing something new. Everybody was doing it like that, besides the "C language family". They're the outlier, not the other way around.
- rtoway 5y agoThanks for educating me. I am affected by recency bias