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On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 09:33:33AM -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Nov 29, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Jesse Vincent wrote:
>
> > We aren't looking for approximation, though. We're looking for definedness.
> >
> > ~ and - are also hard to differentiate when reading code. It's a nonstarter for me.
>
> Yeah, as Abigail pointed out that depends on the font, and since we can't require a font for Perl hackers, it's absolutely a non-starter. ;-)
>
Just because we don't have enough proposals, here are a few other arrow
like symbols [*] that are as far as I can tell are syntax errors currently:
-=>
==>
>->
>>>
[*] They end in a pointy thing pointing right, and have a horizontal
line of symmetry.
Abigail
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