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From:
Smylers
Date:
May 1, 2006 05:16
Subject:
Re: A shorter long dot
Message ID:
20060501121558.GA7898@stripey.com
Jonathan Lang writes:

> Larry Wall wrote:
> 
> > I don't see much downside to \. as a long dot.
> 
> The only remaining problem that I see for the long dot is largely
> orthogonal to the selection of the first and last characters - namely,
> that your only choice for filler is whitespace.

Why's that a "problem"?

Folks want to be able to line stuff up, and to split statements over
multiple lines.  This is now possible.

Smylers

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