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Juerd
Date:
October 26, 2005 08:45
Subject:
Re: +$arg changed to :$arg
Message ID:
20051026154500.GI24094@c4.convolution.nl
Larry Wall skribis 2005-10-26  8:29 (-0700):
> I think a . would be too lightweight visually within the signature.
> Plus . is a postfix prefix syntactically, not a delimiter.

If weight is the issue, @#@ should do ;)

This aside, you could of course just double the colon. Or use a
semicolon.

I just really wouldn't like : to have two very differentmeanings in very
similar places.


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