Comment by sfilargi

10 years ago

Ack.

Maybe I misunderstood the article then! When I read:

        For new features, people insist on LOUD explicit syntax.

        For established features, people want terse notation.

I understood, keep it explicit to begin with, and make it terse when users get familiar. Probably I got it wrong.

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kibwen  10 years ago

I don't think you're wrong, I just think that you're overlooking that not all features eventually receive terse notation. Some stay loud and explicit forever! Only a few, relatively important features receive terse notation, and knowing which features those are requires observing how the language is used.