wolf4earth
As the title suggests, I wonder what the reasoning is behind only allowing “single character sigils”.
The thought came to me while looking at the documentation of the ~U sigil for UTC DateTimes and I thought that this would read so much nicer if it was ~UTC[...].
Does anybody know why Elixir chose to only allow single character sigils? Is there a technical reason for this, or was this a deliberate design decision? If yes, what’s the reasoning behind this decision?
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ltd
This was talked about on the core list here . It seemed to have good support, but that was over a year ago.
ltd
Multi uppercase character sigils will be in elixir 1.15