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2024-01-17
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07:14
<ljharb>
are you suggesting your crazy thought be a change in the lang, making _ special?
07:28
<Andreu Botella>

I wonder if having an optional form without an identifier would be possible, from a parsing standpoint

using ident = expression(1);
using expression(2);
14:29
<littledan>
are you suggesting your crazy thought be a change in the lang, making _ special?
yes
14:30
<littledan>

I wonder if having an optional form without an identifier would be possible, from a parsing standpoint

using ident = expression(1);
using expression(2);
Aside from not solving the more general problem, this faces the syntactic misfortune of not working if the expression that you're using begins with (
16:04
<ljharb>
ah, well that's certainly a nonstarter then