On 4/8/06 6:29 AM, Damian Conway wrote: > I'm not enamoured of the .# I must confess. Nor of the #. either.
Thank goodness...I was beginning to think it was only me! > Though, frankly, every one of the alternatives proposed so far is so ugly that > I seriously doubt that anyone will actually want to use them Agreed, especially... > ...when there are cleaner alternatives for aligning postfixes already > standard in the language: [...] > > foo $obj: $arg = $get_foo( $arg ); > barb $obj: $arg = $get_barb( $arg ); > bazaar $obj: $arg = $get_bizarre( $arg ); > > Maybe we're trying too hard to let people have their postfix dotted space > (and eat it too). I could almost swallow #[ ... ] as a multi-line comment...almost. The others with the dot just rub me the wrong way. -John
