On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 3:03 PM Theodore Brown <theodor...@outlook.com> wrote:
> A second downside of @[] that doesn't appear to have been discussed > yet is typability. On my keyboard, it requires four different keys > on different sides of the keyboard, whereas @@ just requires two keys. > If typability really matters, we should've deprecated the backtick version to run things. We also seem to forget about readability. @@ makes things really hard to read for me as it draws attention, the same goes for <<and>> being written as such, with spaces it's fine. In terms of @[] typability, my IDE auto completes the ] when I type [. After that we have to type a word which will most likely require keys on the right side of the keyboard anyway. Sure, typing @@ is easier, for me this is at the cost of readability. I read code more frequently than I write it, so I think this should matter more. Please don't use @@ for annotations/attributes.
