So do we like Generics or not?
Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering
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How to Use Generics in a Queue Language
There are lots of good reasons not to use angle brackets for that reason. The first generic's proposed legal or the first serious Generic did use parentheses. But I think in that case they were considered not sufficiently distinguished. You know, the square brackets is somewhat distinguished, right? But not, yeah, there's still some ambiguity there. So I guess there would be semantic ambiguity on the human side of like, what is this thing saying if you use, you know, regular parentheses instead of brackets? Yeah, I think that would look quite weird. Just trying to imagine what it would look like with parentheses like, yeah, that would be. No, it's like, are we listening?
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