At 11:32 AM +0200 on 6/20/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:
>Because it'd be mixed up with operators too easily. "=" is used for both
>purposes in maths, but "is" isn't.
If the use of '=' really bugs you that much... don't use it.
>
>>I look forward to an example where this does become confusing. However,
>>this uses or just like we do in everyday languages. And unless we want to
>>do something stupid like forcing everyone to learn mathematical set
>>notation, there is not much alternative.
>
> There have been many alternatives already proposed, among others:
>
>put item 1 to 3 with [del[imiter]] "/" ...
>
>put item 1 to 3 [delimited] by "/" ...
Neither of which allow multiple delimiters.
>
> are both English, although their abbreviated forms leave a bit to desire,
>at least they aren't ambiguous.
>
>>It's there mainly to show extensibility. But it would make some things
>>easier. For example, finding sections of HTML documents. Let's say you want
>>to check links in HTML:
>> put item x (delim=regexp "<a href=(.+?)� .*?>.*?</a>") of HTML...
>
> Please don't. This comes rather natural for a programmer,
As I said, it was an example of extensibility.
