I guess most programmers don’t want to type many words while fewer can make things clear. So I highly suggest Julia directing board to use some shorter key words, for example the function(), could we just use fn() or even func()? Could we not use the end key word for each block? The Fortran alread…

Here are my takes: About function: You can use short-form function syntax f(x) = 2x if you want, and you can even do f(x) = begin #= 10000 lines... =# end or const f = x -> 2x (but please don’t do those things). Short keywords are cool but you’re talking about breaking literally all user code here. …

well, white space sensitivity is not good, I agree, How about just use {}?

why prefer to conflate the iconography of type information f(x::Vector{Int}, y::Union{Maybe, Int}) and blocks? Julia software an unusually effective medium for collaboration and transferring understanding of and the proper use of domain specific solution methods. To compress the tokens would vit…

I totally disagree with this. Julia is just using English keywords, which are very easy to understand even for kids. You can use TAB in your IDE (like Juno) or REPL to auto-complete the keywords. You can create your own code snippet’s keywords in Juno. See this snippets that I added to my juno-too…

At the beginning of my undergrad I found Python’s indentation rules and no ‘end’ keyword as something very elegant. Now I just find it clearer to use the end keyword. I also vote against. Additionally, 1.2 is definitely too late to bring this kind of changes. If it were done, It could only be for a…

[image] LarkyJulia: Hope my suggestion can be saw and seriously considered by the directing board!! Note that the bar is really, really high for changes in surface syntax at this point: because this would break all existing Julia code, the improvement would have to be huge. This is doubtful i…

Hi @LarkyJulia , I suggest spending a good bit of time working with the language before worrying too much about which parts need changing. I think that with experience you will find Julia has a lot of syntactic sugar which allows you to write very concise code. The short-form function syntax mentione…

Or, just have a look into this thread. It proves something of Julia which is quite adorable… [image] Love in 245 Characters (code golf) Community I’ve found that in addition to everything else Julia excels at, it’s also a great language for code golf , and came up with the …

This has to be the most warm and welcoming programming community. I really look upward all of you who had the patience to answer the new commer’s suggestion this constructively. Thank you. You are good human beings.

Hope Julia can use some shorter key words!

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oheil November 19, 2019, 10:23am 10

Or, just have a look into this thread. It proves something of Julia which is quite adorable…

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Hope Julia can use some shorter key words!

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