On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Rainer Deyke <rain...@eldwood.com> wrote: > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> Even Perl would turn its nose at a significant semantic difference >> brought by the third period. > > Not true: Perl has a '..' operator and a '...' operator with distinct > but similar meanings. And as much as I loathe Perl in general, I don't > see anything wrong with that. I am open to a reasonable alternate syntax.
Heh, right you are. http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/pod/perlop.html#Range_Operators If Ruby won't turn it's nose up at a two dot / three dot distinction, then it would be hard to believe Perl would. But leave it to Perl to give it a completely obscure meaning. --bb