On 5/1/02 1:11 PM, "Nathan Bubna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Geir said: >> Why don't you like &? > > eh, various reasons have already been thrown out, but personally, it's the > similarity to && in velocity, similarity to bit-wise & in java, general > aesthetics (i think : looks nicer), and : is easier/quicker to type. (not > necessarily in that order :-) > That's fair. Just wondering. I like "+" because of familairity, but prefer not to overload. I therefore like "&" because of its use in other lighter programming environments (like VB) so there may be some familiarity with people. I didn't mind "." either. I don't like ":" because it's so similar to what you use for namespace declination (or whatever the right word is) in XML. It seems that while the below XML generation example is lucidly clear, I would imagine it could be confusing to some : #if($whatever == true) <$namespace:$foobar attrib="get:$arg" /> #else -- Geir Magnusson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] System and Software Consulting The obvious solutions are challenging -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
