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I agree, it leaves a bad taste in the mouth. It's even worse than old PHP's array().

I'll pick short forms all the time: lists with (), dictionaries/hashes with {}.




Python does this too, and I dislike it slightly. I'd prefer uniform syntax for collections, such as in Lua or golang.




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