Why are there not prefix types?

How would you deal with binding precedence if you did that?

-Arthur

On Apr 11, 2009, at 7:10 PM, Andrés Testi
wrote:

> What is the syntactic reason to not allow single parameter generics
> without brackets? If there are infix types, why not prefix types?
> This would help to reduce verbosity in very nested collections:
>
> val matrix: Array[Array[Array[Int]]] = ....
>
> would become:
>
> val matrix: Array Array Array Int = ....
>
> In the other hand, less verbose Option values would be defined:
>
> type ?[T] = Option[T]
>
> val str: ?String = Some("hello")
>
> It is such feature planned for future releases?
>
> Regards.
>
> - Andrés