Austin Hastings skribis 2004-04-15 18:09 (-0400): > If we're going to entertain alternatives, why not use % as the hash > subscriptor? > To borrow from another thread: > %foo%monday%food = 10; > %foo%monday%travel = 100; > %foo%tuesday%food = 10; > %foo%tuesday%travel = 150;
There is as far as I know no technical reason to not do this. But I do dislike fat operators without whitespace. I dislike that as much as I would dislike using whitespace around a subscripting operator. > This has the advantage of ensuring that the hash-marker [1] appears in every > hash reference, and doubles up on the "path weight" of a single character, > for really good Huffman. %foo is a hash. When I see %foo%bar, it feels like that should be a hash too. Besides that, $foo%bar looks funny and @[EMAIL PROTECTED] does so even more. Not to mention @[EMAIL PROTECTED] I like ` because it's a small but recognisable glyph. (And because of its location on most keyboards.) Juerd
