25 Jun
2018
25 Jun
'18
6:55 a.m.
Not giving a vote, as I'm just a lurker, but: Le 25/06/2018 à 01:30, Greg Ewing a écrit :
Actually, I'm closer to -1 on (a) as well. I don't like := as a way of getting assignment in an expression. The only thing I would give a non-negative rating is some form of "where" or "given".
This resonates with me for a yet different reason: expressing the feature with a new operator makes it feel very important and fundamental, so that beginners would feel compelled to learn it early, and old-timers tend to have a strong gut reaction to it. Using merely a keyword makes it less prominent. Baptiste