I have a different suggestion:
replace -> with ~
~ is already Perlish for "glues to something related".
That's a different construct than "concatenates."
Fred
Suggestion: prepend a ~ or , to numeric comparison operators
Addresses the key concerns:
o frees up .
o spaces insensitive (though cmp, eq, ...do care about spaces)
o using the , instead of ~ would be 1 keystroke on most keyboards
o ~ and , visually intuit a string (~ more than ,)
o avoids:
Suggestion: prepend a ~ or , to numeric comparison operators
Addresses the key concerns:
o frees up .
o spaces insensitive (though cmp, eq, ...do care about spaces)
o using the , instead of ~ would be 1 keystroke on most keyboards
o ~ and , visually intuit a string (~ more than ,)
o avoids:
