I vote for $

It's only used for single characters otherwise so I don't think it's
ambiguous (unless you can use it to specify the space character :( ).

On 8/26/07, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:
> Heh..
> you missed another character which can be used for new operator, its a colon ':'
> But i think its not very good choice, because colon already used to
> designate a keys in keyword message pattern. And single colon is never
> used in expressions.
>
> Maybe we should make a vote , which character (or char sequence) is
> the best? For me, there's no matter how it will look like, its a
> matter how it works.
>
>
> On 26/08/07, Jason Johnson <jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why not the $ operator?  ! looks funny in the places it would be used
> > but $ has a president already.
> >
> > The only issue would be that Haskell programmers might get confused
> > when they see it.  In Haskell the application is right to left, in
> > Smalltalk it is left to right.  But not a big problem I would say.
> >
> > On 8/25/07, Alan Lovejoy <squeak-dev.sourcery at forum-mail.net> wrote:
> > > Since the selector #'|' is already taken for other purposes, why not use
> > > #'!' instead (exclamation point instead of the bar)?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>
>