Larry Wall wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:52:56PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
: Unfortunately, the only obvious one, 's', is taken.
I remind myself that 'S' is equally obvious, and not taken. Like _,
it suffers from spacing issues, but could be the ASCII backup for
the § character. (As Y is likely to be the ASCII backup for ¥.
Maybe Y is the nylon zipper operator.)
Hmm. Gotta decided if S$foo.bar() is too ugly to live though...
It is.
I still kinda like underscore.
How about "scalar"? The fact that one person, one time, came up with a
need to invoke it doesn't mean we have to race it up the huffman tree.
P6 is winning the DWIM race most of the time contextually. Maybe [#] as
a macro, if you like.
=Austin
