need a dialect of Rust that uses `[]` for generics and `()` for array accesses
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I want it too
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Old rust used to use `[]` for type params and I'm still sad that it lost it 😢
This site is a wild ride if you're not familiar with Rust as it was back in the day: brson.github.io/archaea/
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Example of using [] for type params and .() for indexing: brson.github.io/archaea/foreac
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I don't think that _exactly_ would have survived but since we use .0 etc for tuple access I think arrays coulda been the same.
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Oh yeah, I think `()` for indexing like in Scala is fine too.
I love that collection access in scala looks like a function call like that.
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alas
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Replying to @Fish_CTO
I expect someone
somewhere
has already implemented Index
on something that is also callable
for some truly cursed code.
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tricky thing for `.0` etc. is disambiguating the fact that you are looking up a field name vs a variable. As in:
let index = 1;
let data = vec![1, 2, 3];
data.index
…which I guess could be done using type information, but would be kind of surprising… 😅
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oh yes, we have to use parenthetical disambiguation for callable fields too, don't we?
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