--- Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kara Perlistoj, > > the zip operator is a useful one. I like it a lot. But I've been writing > zip() all the time, even though I think an infix operator is nicer. (Not > for for though, because you also have commas in the pointy sub's > parameter list.) > > However, the broken bar is in my opinion a bad choice. As some have > pointed out, because the similarity with |. Historically, 1, l, I and | > have always aided in obfuscation. Adding a(nother) broken bar to it > would be a mistake.
I have quite a few fonts, the only one I can find where | is a broken bar is "Terminal", a font for DOS programs that uses the cp437 charset, which is incompatable with latin1 (« and » are AE and AF instead of AB and BB) and it dosen't even have a ¦. So, it dosen't seem like a problem. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
