Its worth noting that Rust does something similar with the "turbofish" 
operator in expressions:

"42".parse::<i32>()

I personally think this works quite well.

On Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at 5:41:51 AM UTC-7, Michal Strba wrote:
>
> Angle brackets are only problematic in expressions in the bodies of 
> functions when specializing a function or a type, right? They are not 
> problematic in signatures and type definitions.
>
> What about using a dot when specializing in bodies?
>
>     func zero<T>() T {
>         var z T
>         return z
>     }
>
>     func main() {
>         x := zero.<int>() // requires a dot
>     }
>
> This is less weird than it looks, because Go already uses a dot for type 
> assertions and this is a similar thing.
>

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