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On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 11:58:50 p.m. UTC+7 golde...@gmail.com wrote:

> Can not agree any more. Compiler's job, it's duty, is to translate the 
> human readable code into binary 0 and 1. Human readability should take 
> precedence over the compiler complexity and even performance.
>
> 在 2020年7月15日星期三 UTC+8下午12:45:41,robert engels写道:
>>
>> My opinion is that every major language (no flames please… lots of 
>> developers write lots of programs and make money doing it) that supports 
>> generics uses < > for generic types, so Go should too - since there is no 
>> reason to deviate from this other than to avoid changes to the parser. 
>> Seems better to pay this cost once - rather than every Go program that uses 
>> generics being harder to read for eternity (especially for those readers 
>> that use a lot of languages). 
>>
>> > On Jul 14, 2020, at 11:13 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <ia...@golang.org> 
>> wrote: 
>> > 
>> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 8:21 PM Ahmed (OneOfOne) W. <oneo...@gmail.com> 
>> wrote: 
>> >> 
>> >> This feels a little better, but honestly I'm still all for angle 
>> brackets or like Watson suggested, guillamets. 
>> >> 
>> >> fn(T1)(fn2(T2)(fn3(T3)(v))) // 1 
>> >> fn[T1](fn2[T2](fn3[T3](v))) // 2 
>> >> fn<T1>(fn2<T2>(fn3<T3>(v))) // 3 
>> >> fn«T1»(fn2«T2»(fn3«T3»v)))  // 4 
>> >> 
>> >> To me, with a background in C++ and Typescript and a little bit of 
>> Rust, #3 and #4 are just natural and easier to read. 
>> > 
>> > The advantage of parentheses is that the language already uses 
>> > parentheses for lists in various places.  Of course that is also the 
>> > disadvantage. 
>> > 
>> > When considering something other than parentheses, I encourage people 
>> > to look for objective reasons why one syntax is better than another. 
>> > It's going to be different from other aspects of the language.  So 
>> > what reason would we have for preferring one syntax over another? 
>> > 
>> > For example: 
>> > 
>> > Robert already gave reasons why square brackets are better than angle 
>> brackets. 
>> > 
>> > The disadvantage of guillemets is that they are hard to type on many 
>> > keyboards.  So to me either square brackets or angle brackets would be 
>> > better than guillemets. 
>> > 
>> > The disadvantage of a two character sequence such as <: :> is that it 
>> > is more typing.  So again either square brackets or angle brackets 
>> > seem to me to be better. 
>> > 
>> > An example of a reason that square brackets might be a poor choice 
>> > would be ambiguous parsing, or cases where the code is harder to read. 
>> > 
>> > It's true that some other languages use angle brackets, but Go already 
>> > does many things differently.  That is only a minor advantage for 
>> > angle brackets.  To me at least it does not outweigh the 
>> > disadvantages. 
>> > 
>> > In short, please try to provide reasons for a different syntax.  "It 
>> > looks good" is a valid reason, but please try to explain why it looks 
>> > better than square brackets or parentheses. 
>> > 
>> > Thanks. 
>>
> > 
>> > Ian 
>> > 
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