RFC: replace ':' with '=' in struct expressions

[noamraph]

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[ghost]

This has already been proposed in #65 and was rejected.

[alexcrichton]

Yes, as @jakub- said this has been discussed previously and rejected, so closing.

[alexcrichton]

Of course though, thank you for taking time to write this up! We're trying to keep bikeshed to tolerable levels for now, though.

If you'd like to discuss this further, I'd recommend heading over to http://discuss.rust-lang.org/.

[noamraph]

Ouch, that was quick! Just note that #65 was discussed before RFC 25 has landed, so switching was harder then than it is now. Also perhaps the proof-of-concept shows that switching is not really hard.

Is there a reason to prefer discuss.rust-lang.org over reddit? I'd like to ask people to reply with "+1" or "-1", and I think that reddit has more volume.

[alexcrichton]

Discourse is better engineered for long term discussions and having them archived, so we're going to try to use discourse over reddit for now.

[noamraph]

Ok, I left a reply in reddit asking people to vote on Discourse.

[liigo]

This is not the first time people propose changing this syntax.

On the reddit page [1], what i seen is, most people vote for Point { x=3, y=5 }.

= followed by value, : followed by type, we should always keep this consistency.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/2azioc/rfc_replace_point_x_3_y_5_with_point_x3_y5/

[liigo]

@noamraph Any progress? I'd like to see this change to be apply.