Hello. I’m new to Julia and am glad y’all have created such a programming language. However, when learning the syntax, I had the same problem as mentioned here . Programming is a bit less stressful when certain symbols are easy to type, when the code is easy to read and when lesser nuances of the sy…

Unless your goal is to start a team that is developing an AI driven IDE I think this might be beyond the scope of your OP. It sounds like you have a vision of the kind of syntax you want and I think you could accomplish a lot of this on your own with relative ease. Julia is really good at allowing u…

Emacs has the visual substitution feature. I found it cool when I first learned about it, but after two hours, reached the conclusion that I liked to see the bare text and not deal with yet another abstraction layer in my mental models. (global-prettify-symbols-mode 1) (defun bluerose-prettify…

@mkitti : thank you. The mention of Eclipse always reminds me of Jason Fruit’s words “the word “Eclipse” in a programming context (or a literary one, for that matter) fills me with dread; in my mind, Eclipse is a pig strapped to a dog strapped to a whale.” :slight_smile: @NightMachinary : That’s coo…

Ahaha, I love this community. OP asks to use common parlance syntax, us Julians dream about using another uncommon syntax. I share the love for (more) mathematical syntax. And I guess this (whole thread) really shows something about the Julian community.

To be clear about the mathematical syntax, unicode is fully accepted in Julia and we have a unicode entry mechanism using LaTeX names and tab completion: julia> ϕ = π/6; cos(ϕ) 0.8660254037844387 julia> λ = 3 3 julia> τ = 2π 6.283185307179586 julia> τ/2 3.141592653589793 julia> for color ∈ ["re…

I do like being able to use Unicode characters in Julia, however, I fail to see the point of using ∈ instead of in in Julia, especially for for loops (I think it makes a bit more sense for set operations). I think everybody understands what in means, and how to enter it with their REPL or editor. ∈…

[image] ScottPJones: I fail to see the point of using ∈ instead of in in Julia In my opinion the major appeal of ∈ over in comes when negated. I rarely use it for loops, but I’m rather unconcerned about the extra bytes in the file or the extra characters to type.

[image] Nav: and for specifying the typing, dict<string, int> is so much more accessible on the keyboard, easier to type, readable and looks so much better I find the notion that angle brackets are objectively better here quite fanciful. This syntax has caused huge problems in languages that …

[image] jeff.bezanson: I hope you’ll stick around for julia 2.0 when we can entertain more radical ideas — but I also hope you decide that syntax is not where most of the action is :slight_smile: My dream of getting rid of lousy infix notation for sexprs is crushed.

Keeping the syntax and the need to memorise syntax simple

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StefanKarpinski August 13, 2020, 1:14pm 74

PSA written: PSA: Julia is not at that stage of development anymore

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Keeping the syntax and the need to memorise syntax simple

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