Pre-SIP: A Syntax for Collection Literals Scala is lacking so far a concise way to specify collection literals. This makes it an outlier compared to many other popular languages. We propose to change this by introducing a special syntax for such literals. The syntax is quite conventional: A sequence is written as a comma-separated list of elements enclosed in square brackets. For instance, here is a diagonal matrix of rank 3: [[1, 0, 0], [0, 1, 0], [0, 0, 1]] This pre-sip is a follow-...

I think this is awesome. One of the only pain points I have with Scala is collection literals.

  • smoredahlOPEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I see what you’re saying, but isn’t familiarity worth something? After all, Brainfuck is incredibly simple and consistent :)

    • soc@chaos.social
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      4 days ago

      @smoredahl Familiarity is designing for existing users, simplicity is designing for everyone; see https://soc.me/languages/familiarity.

      (I have had this discussion many times. I have heard every single argument on why *this* time repeating a past mistake for familiarity is good. It never works out.)

      > After all, Brainfuck is incredibly simple and consistent :)

      By that measure C++ should be very familiar, because it contains every feature ever imagined by someone. We know how that one worked out.