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Glad it's going away, the syntax is a chore to read and understand. There's no valid reason for the use of brackets.


There’s also no valid reason for the non-use of brackets, is there? They’re just different. It didn’t take long for them to feel natural to me when I started coding in ObjC, and the named method parameters that go with them make ObjC code (in my eyes) delightfully self-documenting.


> different. It didn’t take long for them to feel natural to me when I started coding in ObjC

definitely, and for people like me, who started coding when they were young (on mac/ios) there was no bias for or against such syntax (i also learned c++, and java at the same time and have no special love or hate for those syntaxes either)

i think alot of these "i hate this syntax" issues are people just not liking what they were not used to...


I hated the brackets at first but after using ObjC for a bit I came to love them.


It’s amazing how many peopled are triggered by square brackets.


100% compatibility with C isn’t free.




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