On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 08:28:45PM +1200, Greg Ewing wrote:
> A thought on this poly_str type: perhaps it could be
> called "ascii", since that's what it would have to be
> restricted to, and have
> 
>   a'xxx'
> 
> as a literal syntax for it, seeing as literals seem to
> be one of its main use cases.

This seems like a good idea.

> 
> Thinking way outside the square, and probably the pale
> as well, maybe @ could be pressed into service as an
> infix operator, with
> 
>   s...@i
> 
> being equivalent to
> 
>   s[i:i+1]
> 

And this is way beyond being intuitive. 


-- 
Senthil
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