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In English, the colon is used to separate a term to its definition, so it looks perfectly apt to mark declarations. Besides, it makes it trivial for text edito
by teo_zero 4y ago
In English, the colon is used to separate a term to its definition, so it looks perfectly apt to mark declarations.
Besides, it makes it trivial for text editors to implement "go to definition", and many other niceties without a real semantic parser.