[reuben364]

Do you want to parsing your language to require implementing the typechecker and using shotgun heuristics, all so you can use <> instead of []? Compiler writers die for your sins in code. Let them do things that can drastically simplify things everywhere, instead of suggesting that they're intellectually jerking themselves off. Not that they're immune to that.

EDIT: Apologies, after a bit I realized the above is a bad comment.

Separation of concerns is a common pattern in programming. It allows for things to be testable and changes to be more localized. This is an example of that.