Audrey Tang skribis 2006-04-30 17:31 (+0800): > Austin Hastings wrote: > > Or, to put it another way: what hard problem is it that you guys are > > actively avoiding, that you've spent a week talking about making > > substantial changes to the language in order to facilitate lining up > > method names?
Sorry, I disagree strongly. Lining things up is an important aspect to how people use Perl. > Consider my suggestion retracted, and sorry for the disturbance in the > force. :) I still want to talk about it. Good arguments (about trailing dot being hard to spot, and about underscores) are made, and I think healthy discussion can lead to a much better solution than the current long dot. People who think it wastes their time, by now know what this thread is about, and can choose to ignore it. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html