On Wednesday 01 August 2001 10:04 pm, David L. Nicol wrote:
> I hope this isn't too stale to talk about.
>
This is perl6-language. Nothing, it seems, is too stale to talk about.
We're still brainstorming, even though the RFC period ended 10 months ago.
> Please restrain from telling me that the discussion is over
> and the "." decision is made ond over, for the moment.
Okay, but.....
>
> James Mastros wrote: (on June 21)
>
> > I still fail to see why "." is such an advantage over ->.
> > The only real benifit I see is typing ease, and -> isn't that
> > hard to type. That's what editor macros are for.
>
> What about replacing "->" with "/" ?
Your idea aside, I think the substitution was more to gain the '.' than to
replace the '->'.
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