Tony Morris

For me, it's not that it's illogical, I just find that it adds to my mental parsing load considerably. The same elements, reordered - it requires careful reading which is hard to skim at a glance

As an unnecessary visual metaphor perhaps, but instead of "def name args" it's "def (name args) OR (args name args)" which is unusual & novel syntax for a boring feature that every other language has boring syntax for.

To me, anyway, part of what makes method signatures easy to read is the expected order - def then name then types then args then return type. Very easy to scan. The other thing - why spend novelty dollars on this, when boring obvious syntax is already widely known?

I don't have anything else to say, but thank you very much for taking the time to explain the rationale.