<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>come on, we can't start inventing new syntax only from 'editor' perspective, otherwise we could go to "brainfuck" syntax, which is so compact and easy to write ;), but in 100% is not readable at all</div><div> </div><div>Regards,</div><div>Andrzej</div><div><br></div></span></div><div><div>On May 2, 2012, at 2:35 AM, Loïc Hoguin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 05/02/2012 02:22 AM, Richard O'Keefe wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">As for #{...} vs<{...}>, it's in one way harder to write<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(to get<{, press SHIFT with left hand, and then< and { are close<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">for two-fingered right hand typing; the same is true of }>,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">but #{ requires me to hold down the shift key with my left hand<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">AND press the # key with my left hand at the same time, and while<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">there is a shift key on the right, { requires the use of the right<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">hand). Brackets really ought to be mirror symmetric, but I could<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">live with #{...}.<br></blockquote><br>Only true for a range of QWERTY keyboards. There's a lot more layouts in the world. Incidentaly on my keyboard writing <{}> is insanely difficult (takes a minimum of 2 seconds when trying to go fast), while #{} is not perfect but a lot easier (maybe half a second, hard to measure at this point). This is because the former requires me to press the sequence "<, ALT GR {, ALT GR }, SHIFT >", while the latter only requires "ALT GR #, ALT GR {, ALT GR }". The keys for # and { are also right next to the other, which isn't true for < and {.<br><br>So in my case at least it's not only 1 key less, it's also a lot simpler to type.<br><br>It's also a lot simpler to type = instead of ALT GR ~, regardless of other considerations.<br><br>-- <br>Loïc Hoguin<br>Erlang Cowboy<br>Nine Nines<br>_______________________________________________<br>erlang-questions mailing list<br><a href="mailto:erlang-questions@erlang.org">erlang-questions@erlang.org</a><br>http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-questions<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>