pipe
Alan Lovejoy
squeak-dev.sourcery at forum-mail.net
Mon Aug 27 18:19:48 UTC 2007
Vassili Bykov wrote:
> ... The concern that
> made me change it to :> was the similarity of ; and ;;. It may sound
> good from the logical point of view, in practice I'm afraid it can be
> a source of bugs.
That's my concern also.
By the way, I just checked the ANSI syntax, and discovered that the $_
(underscore) character is also legal as the first character in an
identifier (Somehow, I had wrongly developed the notion that it could
not occur in the first position.) So I no longer favor "_|" as the
token for the pipe operator.
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