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From:
Zefram
Date:
November 14, 2017 20:58
Subject:
Re: square signatures
Message ID:
20171114205758.GJ4913@fysh.org
Leon Timmermans wrote:
> I quite frankly don't care about
>the advantages for prototypes, they're clearly the wrong thing to optimize
>for.
Prototypes are not the motivation for this proposal; re-enabling their
short syntax is just a bonus. The motivation is to make signatures and
prototypes more distinct. In allocating the delimiter characters, we're
constrained by the fact that prototypes got there first and bagged parens.
-zefram
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