On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:21:53AM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: : On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 07:56:09AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: : > I don't know how long this EuroOSCON net is going to stay up, so I'll be : > brief. I think we're having a new "class" sigil. Where we've been : > writing ::T, that will revert to meaning "an existing class T that : > we just might not see the declaration of for dynamic reasons". Instead, : > the new sigil is the cent sign, so ::T is now written ¢T instead. : > : Looking at my U.S. English keyboard, I don't have a cent sign. I don't : think a sigil that can't be typed (or easily typed) is something that : should be used.
Part of the reason for picking it is that we want to discourage people from using it unless they're experts. But it's in Latin-1, so it's not going to be any harder than the other Latin-1 characters we've used to type. Larry
