alt Hacker NewsIt was absolutely amazing how stubborn and ridiculous the whole bracket-less syntax change was handled. It was basically a dictatorial decision that they pretended to be a community decision. It was just pushed and tons of people voiced their disapproval. In the end it was "so bad so sad you can always reenable brackets".
They did it to try to appeal to Pythonists.. turns out that wasn't why Pythonists didn't use scala in the first place.
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still_grokking • last Monday at 9:37 PM
> In the end it was "so bad so sad you can always reenable brackets".
This is not true.
Nobody ever proposed to replace the old syntax!
The new syntax was, and is, optional, and that's exactly like designed from the very beginning.
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I think it’s nice to be able to use it. But like pretty much everything in scala, it’s a huge smorgasbord of things from which you can choose. I personally don’t use that syntax, but it’s cool that I can and sometimes I do just for fun.