On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Kevin Ballard <ke...@sb.org> wrote:
> I'm still very much a fan of leaving ~ as the allocation operator. Despite 
> what Patrick says, I'm pretty sure the reason why users are confused about it 
> is purely due to sub-par documentation, and not due to any actual inherent 
> problems with using a non-alphabetic symbol as an operator. Heck, we have 
> plenty of other non-alphabetic operators that don't cause confusion, why is 
> this one special?
>

I'll admit, I don't find the "confusing" argument very convincing. I
just think `box` looks better than `~`.
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