Re: C++ preferences

[Hans Åberg]

> On 13 Sep 2018, at 07:00, Akim Demaille <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I recently had to work on some piece of software with coroutines,
> and known what variables are immutable was really reassuring.

A C++ Simula library implemented coroutines using threads. So coroutines maybe 
are not a must.

>> But if there was a more concise syntax, I'd like it. I had
>> fantasized about a new keyword ("let") or a new syntax (":="),
> 
> Yep, I was impressed by Swift, there are many beautiful things
> in this language.  I really like their `let`.

To drawbacks seems to be that it is a closed box—get into it, and you cannot 
get out, and that is it very verbose.