On 24-02-2014, at 10:52 AM, Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@gmail.com wrote:
Though being reserved for return statements, the upArrow ^ could perfectly be accepted as a character composing a binary selector, like the verticalBar | already is.
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What do you think?
I think that it would be a massive cognitive overload when reading code. The return signifier needs to be a unique artefact, whatever it is.
foo bar blah ^ ribbet factorial
Quick - is that correct code or should there be a ‘.’ in front of the ^ ? Will it crash the spaceship?
I wish we still had a proper up arrow rather than a caret, not to mention the proper left arrow assign instead of the nonsensical Pascal :=.
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor and when was the last time you needed one? -- Tom Cargin