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Richard Riehle wrote:
> Well, I've mentioned this before as a cautionary issue, but reports are
> coming in of an impending world-wide shortage of curly braces.  Soon,
> languages that depend on curly braces will run out of this essential
> resource, and other languages will have to fill in the gap.  :-)

Ada had better watch out as well. Due to the popularity of
template metaprogramming in C++, angle brackets will soon
be in short supply, and Ada programmers will no longer be
able to use "is <>" :-)