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Abigail
Date:
November 29, 2010 09:00
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] Add "safe arrow/safe dereference" operator: &&->
Message ID:
20101129170148.GD11337@almanda
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 08:51:54AM -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2010, at 8:49 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Nov 29, 2010, at 1:08 AM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> > 
> >> I dislike it, because it will be difficult to include in POD in C<< >> quotes :)
> >> (No-one commented on ~> either)
> > 
> > +1 # my favorite.
> 
> I think of ~> as a sort of "soft" or "approximate" ->. I think it works mnemonically.
> 


I guess that works if you have a font where ~ is on the same height as
a dash. On my 6x13 fixed width X-font, ~> doesn't look like an arrow at
all. Being an accent, the ~ is high on the line, touching the upper left
corner of the >. (It looks more like "> or a flipped _> than an arrow).

For me, ~> doesn't work as a mnemonic at all.



Abigail
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