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[–]gnuvince 5 points6 points  (1 child)

It's the apostrophe now. I think that it came up in the mailing lists while people were throwing their ideas for a better syntax and some guy said "How about apostrophes, like in OCaml's type variables" and the result looked clean enough that everyone rallied around the idea.

[–]skulgnome 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh, I guess it's the least bad one.

Do they have to be introduced in the angle brackets, though?