Re: foo..bar or long dot and the range operator

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 00:06, TSa wrote:

> Doesn't that discontinuity devalue the long dot? Its purpose is
> alignment in the first palce. For a one char diff in length one
> now needs
>
>     foo.  .bar;
>     self. .bar;
>
> instead of
>
>     foo .bar;
>     self.bar;

Or even:

	 foo.bar;
	self.bar;

I *still* don't understand the problem this long dot is trying to solve.

-- c

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