Keeping the syntax and the need to memorise syntax simple

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@baggepinnen

Most commonly used keys are awkward to reach on a swedish keyboard.

Not only on Swedish… I hope that makes you feel better.

@Nav

I used to absolutely hate the -> operator in C++.

Welcome to the club! Luckily for you, Julia doesn’t have such issues. I want to clarify some things:

@Nav

In Julia I see the same problem with syntax like Dict3=Dict{String, Integer}("a"=>10, "c"=> 20) .

You don’t need to always specify types (hello, C++). String, Int64 will be automatically deduced by compiler:

julia> Dict("a" => 10, "c" => 20)
Dict{String,Int64} with 2 entries:
  "c" => 20
  "a" => 10

You don’t like =>? You can replace it with any other available symbol (from How to change => to another symbol?):

julia> const → = =>
Pair

julia> 1 → 2
1 => 2

Regarding this:

@Nav

In rand(Int, 2) etc, it would be easier to type int , float etc, if we could just type it without having to press the Shift key. Also, it looks neater when they are lowercase.

@Nav

Case usage of functions like SubString() could perhaps be substring() or subString() .

Types are generally written in UpperCamelCase, as they are in Julia base / standard library. It’s standard in every modern language to write object type names that way, and base types are in no way more special than any object type you declare in Julia.

That may not satisfy your needs, though. Do you really dislike pressing Shift key? The solution is simple:

julia> const int = Int
Int64

julia> const float = Float64
Float64

julia> int(1.0)
1

julia> float(1.0)
1.0