But if you define P=. @:] once, you would not save any characters afterwards by 
using cap.  Am I missing something?   Was this the compelling reason to 
introduce the anomaly?


From: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:16:08 AM

On 2/21/08, Jose Mario Quintana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I had been trying, since the cap's inception, to figure out what the
> advantages were (apart from saving one or two characters).

I thought that conciseness was the issue (and that saving two characters
for a frequent case was an example of this conciseness).

-- 
Raul
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