Comment by klysm
3 days ago
Sure but I don’t think those examples really matter once you establish basic familiarity with a language. The semantics and constructs a language provides are much more important and debating syntax is missing the forest for the trees
The array syntax is very offensive: `const a = [3]i32{ 1, 2, 3 };` A set is denoted by braces, not an array.
1. using [] drops context-freeness. what is: foo[1]? is that foo type array with one element? or accessing the foo array at index 1?
2. how do you feel about array initialization in C?
3. you can think of {...} as defining memory regions, curlies around code are defining "a memory block of instructions"
According to your familiarity yes, but how is this such a problem? It’s easy to get past
This is exactly why I find the language unintuitive. I don't understand why they made the choices they made. For example, why curly brackets?
I find the rust equivalent much more intuitive `let a: [i32; 3] = [1, 2, 3];`
It’s targeting C/C++ programmers accustomed to initializer lists in C/C++.
you couldn't do that in zig because a type is potentially a valid value:
.{i32, 3} is a valid term in zig.