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From:
Audrey Tang
Date:
April 30, 2006 02:32
Subject:
Re: A shorter long dot
Message ID:
445483DF.6010808@audreyt.org
Austin Hastings wrote:
> Or, to put it another way: what hard problem is it that you guys are
> actively avoiding, that you've spent a week talking about making
> substantial changes to the language in order to facilitate lining up
> method names?

That's a very good point too.

Initially it's just a cute idea for filling in the 2-character method
invocation gap, as well as making $x.+method and $x.:method line up, but
it's probably not worth people's time in arguing this any further...
Consider my suggestion retracted, and sorry for the disturbance in the
force. :)

Thanks,
Audrey



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