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Bagels are delicious
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Use subscripting for generics. #51

Closed alex closed 10 years ago

alex commented 10 years ago

The angle brackets syntax was originally suggested by @hynek and @glyph (IIRC), I had been using curly braces origianlly.

However a review of [Andreas Stefik and Susanna Siebert. 2013] suggests that subscripting is more readily understood by non-programmers.

(Full citation: Andreas Stefik and Susanna Siebert. 2013. An Empirical Investigation into Programming Language Syntax. ACM Transactions on Computing Education 13, 4, Article 19 (November 2013), 40 pages.)