Re: Tying & Overloading

[Bart Lateur]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 14:37:02 +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:

>Let's put it a different way - if we can find a short operator which
>is readily accessible on most people's keyboards, then that would
>score over a longer operator which is readily accessible on most 
>people's keyboards. Maybe ~ isn't that operator. Maybe & is, or ^ or
>#, or whatever.

'~' is not good because it's very hard to reach. But "^" is a deadkey
too, so this one also needs pressing a space.

If you want something that's easy to type and that won't conflict with
current Perl, try "!".

Too bad "_" is a word character.

-- 
        Bart.