On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 08:21:06PM +0100, Juerd wrote:
> James Mastros skribis 2004-11-27 11:36 (+0100):
> > Much more clear, saves ` for other things
>
> I like the idea. But as a earlier thread showed, people find backticks
> ugly. Strangely enough, only when used for something other than
> readpipe.
>
> The idea of being able to write
>
> %hash{'foo'}{'bar'}{$foo}[0]{$bar}
>
> as
>
> %hash`foo`bar`$foo`0`$bar
>
> still works very well for me. At least on all keyboards that I own, it
> is easier to type. And in all fonts that I use for terminals (that'd be
> only misc-fixed and 80x24 text terminals), it improves legibility too.
Doesn't that cause ambiguity between:
%hash{'foo'}{'bar'}{$foo}[0]{$bar}
and
%hash{'foo'}{'bar'}{$foo}{0}{$bar}
^ ^ hash instead of subscript
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