Idea] Turbofish replacement - language design - Rust Internals

This is not an Pre-RFC yet, I’ll write one when it collects some hype and initial bikesheddings for it. The idea here is a new syntax which does exactly what fn-call-after-turbofish does currently, but fancier. It basically looks like this. mem::size_of(:T); iter.collect(:Vec<_>); make_array(:u8, :64, 0); do_something(:T, :U, a, b); So function call arguments can be started with optional type arguments. Type arguments are started with :, and interpreted in type context. All type arguments mus

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