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Re: new sigil
From:
Larry Wall
Date:
October 20, 2005 08:34
Subject:
Re: new sigil
Message ID:
20051020153433.GA4910@wall.org
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:21:53AM -0500, Steve Peters wrote:
: On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 07:56:09AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: > I don't know how long this EuroOSCON net is going to stay up, so I'll be
: > brief. I think we're having a new "class" sigil. Where we've been
: > writing ::T, that will revert to meaning "an existing class T that
: > we just might not see the declaration of for dynamic reasons". Instead,
: > the new sigil is the cent sign, so ::T is now written ¢T instead.
: >
: Looking at my U.S. English keyboard, I don't have a cent sign. I don't
: think a sigil that can't be typed (or easily typed) is something that
: should be used.
Part of the reason for picking it is that we want to discourage people
from using it unless they're experts. But it's in Latin-1, so it's not
going to be any harder than the other Latin-1 characters we've used
to type.
Larry