Mark,
I chatted with Allison Randal at OSCON shortly after this decision was
made (because I liked the _). IIRC, she said that the desire for
orthogonality in Parrot influenced the decision to switch.
Well, obviously I'm no expert, but I would have to say that without further clarification that doesn't sound like a very
good reason to me. It seems to be the language-design equivalent of letting the software drive the business instead of
the business driving the software.
I agree! Hey, we got the whole UTF-8 space to work with, don't we? How
about the ellipsis character "..." (0x2026) or an em dash "-" (0x2014).
Seem like suitable choices to me ;-)
Heh. Well, I think that would violate Larry's stated objective of Huffman coding (i.e. string concatenation is a pretty
common operation). I'll be honest and say I would really have no idea how to type a UTF8 em dash in vi. :)
Anyhoo, I mainly wanted to point this out because the TT2 documentation should probably be updated. If we drift too far
into a debate on Perl6 operators, someone is going to yell at us for going off-topic. ;->
-- Buddy
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