Comment by helix278
6 hours ago
Superficially, I find the syntax very untuitive to read. Most languages opt to use <> for typevariables. Is there a specific reason you chose to deviate from that and use []?
6 hours ago
Superficially, I find the syntax very untuitive to read. Most languages opt to use <> for typevariables. Is there a specific reason you chose to deviate from that and use []?
I actually can't think of any functional languages that use < > for type variables (I'm sure there's one or two, but it can't be common)
Depends on what you mean by functional language. I was considering main-stream languages that support some form of functional programming. So Rust, F#, C#, Kotlin, Swift, Typescript, etc
F# does, I think
This is only true for C-style languages? Flix uses square brackets, as does Effekt, and Nim, as well as Python. Probably many more I'm missing. Gleam even uses normal parens.
I'm not sure most languages get a vote here.
They can't even represent Fuse's Functor example, i.e.
so maybe they don't get any points for syntax.