Re: [Boston.pm] Breaking "." to ruin "->" in Perl6?!

[Dan Sugalski]

At 08:08 PM 9/9/2001 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


> > But how about just ":"? Anyone have any thoughts or know if Larry and the
> > crew have considered it?
> >
> > -matthew-
>actually i heard that it's believed that ":" can beused for just about
>anything and for that reason they stay way form it. it has been considered
>though. i don't really like that justification, and i don't know if it'
>the only one.

"Larry's rule of RFCs--everyone wants the colon". If you read through the 
RFC list from last fall, you'll find about half of them wanted the colon 
for one thing or another.

                                        Dan

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