I don't think so. Just look at the subject line.
In any case ( 3 : ( ), that is even worse.
----- Original Message -----
From: Joey K Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, October 1, 2007 11:10
Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] 3 :'('
To: General forum <[email protected]>
Cc: General forum <[email protected]>
> I understood Raul to be suggesting:
>
> foo =: 3 : (
> '(*:y)%2'
> )
>
> for the multi-line version of your example.
>
>
> At 10:55 -0700 2007/10/01, Roger Hui wrote:
> >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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