I don't know the answer to that but Scala is also a precedent for using square b...

ebruchez on Oct 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Expectations for generics in Go 1.18

I don't know the answer to that but Scala is also a precedent for using square brackets for generics (AKA type parameters). However in Scala arrays don't use square brackets so that confusion is avoided.

mseepgood on Oct 28, 2021 [–]

And Python and CLU, Barbara Liskov's OG generics language.