| 00:06 | <ljharb> | fwiw # already means private fields so it's not necessarily a home run |
| 00:14 | <jschoi> | That is true. Of course, that problem is shared with And every choice of pipe topic left ( I still think the formulae in the wiki are pretty good heuristics. |
| 21:18 | <TabAtkins> | I still think we want to allow for # to be a metacharacter, since we're nearly out of ASCII syntax, so we'd want ## for the topic. |
| 21:45 | <jschoi> | It’s true that we’re almost out of symbols.@ is also there as a metacharacter, to a limited extent.I was against ## in that November 2021 incubator call, but I’m less negative toward ## now (because composite literals would probably be much less ubiquitous than record/tuple literals, so there would be much less visual noise with ##).I still want # most. Its brevity would be so nice.But ## (and ^^) aren’t terrible. I like #_, @@, and %% less.The wiki page has been refreshed. |