Re: [VOTE] Shorter Attribute Syntax Change

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 16:31, Theodore Brown <theodorejb@outlook.com> wrote: > > How does @@ come out worse? Seems clear enough to me: > Additionally, on a US English/US International keybaord, Shift-2 (for @) > is an awkward combination to type with the pinky and middle finger of > your left hand. (Note that this is also true of UK Mac keyboards, which more closely resemble the US PC layout.) > Anyway, please do add easy typeability to the matrix > How would you measure "easy typability"? On what keyboard layout? Would you write "Yes" and "No", or "quite easy", or marks out of 10? > fact that the @@ syntax makes attributes easier to grep for. > The same question: how do you summarise this in a table? Complexity of the regex? Number of false positives in some representative code base? As I've said before, the table would be useful if it was a re-cap of arguments discussed in prose elsewhere, but it is not on its own a good source of information for making a decision. Regards, -- Rowan Tommins [IMSoP]