On 25.02.2010, at 01:52, Eliot Miranda wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lukas suggested to not provide backward compatibility and compile 1 at -2
> as 1 @- (2)
> This should be done anyway.  But IMO @- should be implemented to raise an error /not/ sign-invert!  We want people to clean up, not rely on a crutch.


I for one would hate if I could't type -1 at -1 interactively anymore. This syntax is so common and used almost as if it was a literal that I strongly feel @- should be implemented to do the expected (and Point's printOn: should generate text without parens).

- Bert -


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