From: Daniel Brockman <daniel@...>
Date: 2005-08-06T23:29:46+09:00
Subject: Re: new block notation

"David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> writes:

> I'm still not seeing how
>
>    [:]
>
> or
>
>    [=>]
>
> conveys the notion of 'emptiness' better than
>
>    {}

The reason people are suggesting the [:] syntax is to avoid
the confusion with blocks.  Since {} doesn't avoid the
confusion with blocks, [:] is in this sense better.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>