Hello,
> A typical computer keyboard provides four easily accessible pairs of
> single-character symmetrical "brackets": parentheses ( and ), square
> brackets [ and ], curly braces { and }, and angle brackets < and >. Go uses
> curly braces to delineate code blocks, composite literals, and some
> composite types, making it virtually impossible to use them for generics
> without severe syntactic problems. Angle brackets require unbounded parser
> look-ahead or type information in certain situations (see the end of this
> e-mail for an example). This leaves us with parentheses and square
> brackets.
Another option would be the introduction of a new two-letter
"bracket" operator, for example <: and :> . This could be parsed
without symbol/type information and even without the "type" keyword.
That said, I'm fine with any syntax. Thank you for your work on
generics!
Regards,
Harald
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