Among other things, this proposal conflicts with current uses such as 3 :
'(*:y)%2'
----- Original Message -----
From: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, October 1, 2007 8:37
Subject: [Jgeneral] 3 :'('
To: General forum <[email protected]>
> It occurs to me that allowing the character '(' to serve the
> same role
> as the 0 after the colon when introducing multi-line blocks of code
> might make the language more intuitive and palatable for new users.
>
> I do not think existing users would benefit much from this -- by now
> we are all used the unbalanced parenthesis. However, from a
> presentation and mnemonic standpoint, I think the extra verbosity
> (the two quote characters) would be justified.
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