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On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:00:28PM -0500, Aaron Sherman wrote:
>
> The one obvious thing to POD users is the replacement of <> with [] or
> {}. Why is this? Because < and > are used in un-balanced ways in a large
> number of situations, so they should not be the primary bracketing
> constructs.
Actually, I quite like <> as the bracketing characters. They are
visually distinctive, they connect well with their adjacent C/X/L/etc
without visually merging into it (compare L<foo> with L[foo]), and in
the circumstance that you want to bracket an unbalanced bracket, you
just double (triple, whatever) up and add some space:
C<< $x > $y >>
Looks pretty clear to me.
--Dks
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