Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax

Re:Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax by zozbot234 on Saturday September 17, 2022 @12:01PM (#32878582)

> main: () -> int = {

Y U NO fn??!? So close, and yet so obviously wrong.

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Re:Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax by duped on Saturday September 17, 2022 @12:05PM (#32878625)

Why add a keyword when you don't need it?

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Re:Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax by teo_zero on Sunday September 18, 2022 @02:16AM (#32884915)

One answer would be: So that when you hit the ( you know it's a list of parameters and not an expression, even before you spot the ->

I still haven't read enough about syntax 2 to understand if it allows any other use of ( after a : but if yes, a keyword like fn or fun would make the parser much more regular.

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Re:Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax by bogdanoff_2 on Saturday September 17, 2022 @12:53PM (#32878999)

For easier grepping

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Re:Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax by duped on Saturday September 17, 2022 @04:13PM (#32881135)

Use an IDE

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Re:Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax by chlorion on Saturday September 17, 2022 @09:17PM (#32883414)

I'm not sure that any IDEs support cppfront yet!

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Re:Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax by Koshkin on Saturday September 17, 2022 @02:04PM (#32879727)

fn is no fun

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