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These examples are amusing but irrelevant.

What I find sorely lacking is sane syntax for working with arrays. Eyeing Python with envy every time.

And some pattern matching would be nice too.




Special syntax for specific data structures are exactly why I hate so many languages. No. We don't need more of that garbage. Map & co. do everything you need and adding yet another syntactic construct on top of it would just break the language even more.




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