On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, John Williams wrote:
But IMHO the reduction in typing for this relatively minor issue is not
really worth the surprise to newbies at seeing operandless operators.
I don't buy that argument as newbies are already exposed to all sorts of
surprises including operandless operators. Including mutating operandless
operators. What is s/// after all? Or is there a good reason for an
asymmetry between different classes of operators?
Michele
--
=> (But it is impossible to even imagine an operating-system which would
=> not crash before the sun has burned all of its hydrogen, let alone not
=> crash before the end of the universe.....)
I find it hard to imagine an operating system which would not crash
before the end of the week....
- Gerry Myerson in sci.math
