Why is Bosque moving away from regular generic syntax about bosquelanguage HOT 4 CLOSED

Because Microsoft decided to take features from other languages and put them into one?

In the tic-tac-toe example, they have NSMain (from Objective-C).
All the array syntax is the same too.. @[1, 2, 3, ...] is the Objective-C array literal.
function foo(x: Int, y: Int): Int is from Pascal.

They are inconsistent with how "this" is used.. "this.cells" vs. "this->getContent". I guess they're just trying to research different syntax and what people would like and not like..

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Partially related -- I wonder why type unions are inconsistent.

T1 | T2 // Either T1 or T2
T1 + T2 // Must provide both T1 and T2 (why is it not T1 & T2)

https://github.com/Microsoft/BosqueLanguage/blob/master/docs/language/overview.md#14-combination-types

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@Brandon-T oh yeah I forgot this is still an experiment

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Closing and referencing issue #14 for future discussion.

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