[nem-en] [RFC] type parens

[Michal Moskal]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 11:15:51AM +0200, Ricardo Fernández Pascual wrote:
> El vie, 24-09-2004 a las 11:06, Michal Moskal escribió:
> 
> > So, there is proposition to change <> to []. So it would be now
> > Hashtable[int,string], list[foo] and so on.
> 
> Why not parentheses: Hashtable (int, string) and list (foo)? 
> Just curious.

  foo['a] (x : 'a) : 'a { x }

vs:

  foo('a) (x : 'a) : 'a { x }

Of course the dual situation would occur for indexers, but they are far
more rare.

> > We don't feel very good about it -- it will break backward as well as
> > C# compatibility, but this seems the only right thing to do. 
> 
> Personally, I never liked C++/C# use of "<" and ">" for this. But I see
> that following C# would be (sightly) beneficial here.

Yes. The counterargument would be, that getting the idea of changing <>
into [] in types takes a few seconds to most of us.

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