[Grace-core] Parsing ambiguity

[Kim Bruce]

I've always preferred [ ] (which should now be available as we change lists) or even [[ ]].  "<" and ">" are just too common and will cause confusion even if we make arbitrary rules like requiring whitespace around relations.

Kim



On Jul 1, 2014, at 5:47 PM, Andrew P. Black <black at cs.pdx.edu> wrote:

> 
> On 1 Jul 2014, at 17:23, Timothy Jones <tim at ecs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
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>> On 02/07, James Noble wrote:
>>> 1. because Java because C++
>>> 2. unlike other arguments, "type" arguments in <>s are optional.
>>> 3. at one point I tried to suggest a general optional keyword scheme, and you'd write foo type(X,Y)  or something if you wanted to give types
>> 
>> Rust is having this argument at the moment as well.
>> 
>> https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/148
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> 
> It’s a different argument: [ ] vs < >.    Fortress uses Oxford brackets, ⟦ ⟧, which were typed [[ and ]].
> 
> 	Andrew
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