Sounds like a bit of a turing tarpit if you ask me. Sure there are technically ways to work around the lack of read syntax (I mean, Java didn't have literal syn

Sounds like a bit of a turing tarpit if you ask me. Sure there are technically ways to work around the lack of read syntax (I mean, Java didn't have literal syntax for any non-array collections for ages) but that doesn't mean it's a good idea.