Agreed on all points except possibly semicolons. Automatic semicolon inference has a very big language footprint, similar to the range syntax that the author disliked.
That said, I don't think the vararg suggestion belongs in this list of syntax changes. For this feature to be useful, it has to be at least powerful enough to replace format!, but the current type system isn't even remotely expressive enough to do this. I imagine this would require something like C++-style templates or comptime reflection, which goes well beyond syntax changes.
I added the author's other texts to my reading backlog too. Looks interesting.
Agreed on all points except possibly semicolons. Automatic semicolon inference has a very big language footprint, similar to the range syntax that the author disliked.
That said, I don't think the vararg suggestion belongs in this list of syntax changes. For this feature to be useful, it has to be at least powerful enough to replace
format!, but the current type system isn't even remotely expressive enough to do this. I imagine this would require something like C++-style templates or comptime reflection, which goes well beyond syntax changes.I added the author's other texts to my reading backlog too. Looks interesting.