PSA: Parametric method syntax deprecation about to drop

[StefanKarpinski]

Yeah, this is going to be a bit painful. Apologies in advance, for not having a better syntax for this in the first place and thereby inflicting this on everyone. I posted over here about the motivation for the change:

Anybody else find the new where syntax less than satisfactory?

I explained the overall motivation for the where syntax in this StackOverflow answer: Partly quoting from there (with some clarifications and edits): Fundamentally, the problem with F{T}(args...) in Julia 0.5 and earlier is that the F{T} part is ambiguous – the parser knows what it means from the broader context, but its meaning depends heavily on that context. The fact that it can mean such different things is pretty confusing: In most contexts, F{T} means the parametric type F with type…