<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="Singleton"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">I also prefer #1. It’s a shame that this conflicts with the potential<br class="">syntax for variadic generics. Is there really no way around this?<br class="">I’m showing my ignorance on compilers here, but couldn’t the fact that<br class="">variadic generics will be inside angle brackets be used to<br class="">distinguish?</blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">AFAIK, we have no serious / concrete design proposal for variadic generics, so it remains unclear to me that we would syntactically follow the C++ model. The C++ model seems very influenced by its instantiation based approach.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In any case, it seems like an obviously good tradeoff to make the syntax for variadic generics more complicated if it makes one sided ranges more beautiful.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Chris</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. It’s hard to disagree with your point.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>My only other thought is that there is some elegance to sharing the same syntax at compile time and runtime for the conceptually a similar operation of “give me the rest of the items in the list”.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-Matt</div><br class=""></body></html>