Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g

[Graham Barr]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:35:24AM +0000, Fred Heutte wrote:
> Bart Lateur's response summarizes well what I've heard so far
> from responses both to the list and privately:
> 
> (1) Yes,  ~  *is* somewhat used in its current role as the bitwise
>     negation (complement) operator.
> 
> (2) No, that doesn't appear to overlap my proposal for its use
>     as a successor to  ->  as now used.

You don't get it.

We are not looking for a single char to replace ->

We WANT to use .

Graham.