[Apologies for the delay in responding to this (and other) messages -- I read some of these a couple of weeks ago but didn't want to reply till I'd read the entire thread, then I was away a bit ...]
Larry Wall writes: > On the other hand, it's possible that we should extend the visual > metaphor of »« and apply it asymmetrically when one of the arguments > is expected to be scalar. The more I've thought about this since you suggested it, the more sense it makes. Smylers
