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I would add my vote to go slow on such a change. From a language design perspective, there are a couple of arguments against greater concision here: 1) We optimize...

Despite my earlier go-slow advice, I will point out on the other side that the big reason we distinguished Any from Mu is so that conceptual types such as Junction...

I take "of course" as a small apology by the writer that they do not know whether or not the reader needs to be reminded of what follows. English has...

The whitespace is needed there because it will treat what you think of as the closer as an additional nested opener. This is why it's usually better to use opposing...

It looks to me like it is something within a negative lookahead > that is assuming it's okay to throw an exception rather than just failing. It is certainly a...

((1 + 2) * 3) On Thu, Jan 4, 2024 at 8:14 AM Elizabeth Mattijsen ***@***.***> wrote: > I don't think discussing a new operator here would be a good...

I'd use the long variants of the double barreled arrows: ⟸ and ⟹. Larry On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 11:39 AM Daniel Sockwell ***@***.***> wrote: > Proposed solution: Raku...