Peter Scott wrote: > Am I the only one who sees a hyphen and thinks "binary minus"? Just > because the parser can disambiguate this use of it doesn't mean the > reader's brain can do so as easily.
It's all a matter of practice. Since variables begin with sigils, and you should put whitespace around infix operators anyway, it's not really hard. Have you tried looking at actual Perl 6 code that uses hyphens? I have, and I didn't find it hard. > (I assume we're talking about the same character, 0x2D, and not something > from further afield in the Unicode tables, right?) Yes. > Also, what happens when code gets run through mailers or other programs > that think a hyphen is an acceptable place to break a line? Does the > code still work after copy and paste with that newline inserted? The existence of broken tools shouldn't stop progress -- rather the progress should encourage us to fix broken tools (or replace them with better ones). Cheers, Moritz
