Larry Wall wrote:
Seems so to me too. I don't see much downside to \. as a long dot.
The only remaining problem that I see for the long dot is largely
orthogonal to the selection of the first and last characters - namely,
that your only choice for filler is whitespace. Although the C<\.>
option opens an intriguing possibility of defining the long dot
pattern as "backslash, dot or whitespace (repeated zero or more
times), dot":
$xyzzy.foo()
$fooz\.foo()
$foo\..foo()
$fa\...foo()
$and_a_long_one_I_still_want_to_align\
.......foo()
$etc\..foo()
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Jonathan Lang
