I think we're getting into Parkinson's law territory here. First off, I don't think this causes all that much confusion. Second, since this is pure syntax involving a keyword no less, this is one of the easiest things to mechanically fix should we chose to do so in the future.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Tamas Papp <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28 2015, feza <[email protected]> wrote: > > > But really this seems like a fundamental enough language construct that > > there should be only one correct way; but on the other hand my brain > > doesn't have a problem with `=` and it seems natural since I have been > > using matlab for a while, even though `in` seems actually to make more > > sense here. > > I think that even simply tossing a coin between = and in and just > picking one would improve on the current situation. Either Matlab or R > users will have to learn a new syntax, but I doubt that this is the > biggest hurdle they will encounter in Julia. > > This would resolve the uncertainty, stop "why = or in" questions (they > come up frequently), and also stop further bikeshedding about this. > > Best, > > Tamas >
