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Re: Tying & Overloading
From:
Bart Lateur
Date:
April 24, 2001 06:46
Subject:
Re: Tying & Overloading
Message ID:
4s0bet8um0n5b573f6rhvq0hsjsg1hr0m4@4ax.com
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:37:02 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
>Let's put it a different way - if we can find a short operator which
>is readily accessible on most people's keyboards, then that would
>score over a longer operator which is readily accessible on most
>people's keyboards. Maybe ~ isn't that operator. Maybe & is, or ^ or
>#, or whatever.
'~' is not good because it's very hard to reach. But "^" is a deadkey
too, so this one also needs pressing a space.
If you want something that's easy to type and that won't conflict with
current Perl, try "!".
Too bad "_" is a word character.
--
Bart.