I don't understand what's wrong with having a macro for syntax that's useful?
You think that "borrow" has the same kind of jargony nature as "monad" despite borrow being an English word meant to analogize borrowing?
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I think "applicative" is no easier to understand than "monad" despite the friendly name and that helpful names matter less than you'd think.
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"applicative" is not very similar to "borrow" in the friendly name dept. All of
@nikomatsakis' talks have stick figures borrowing things -
Also friendly names matter a lot. There's a reason for the name/cache invalidation joke.
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