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Juerd
Date:
November 27, 2004 11:21
Subject:
Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets
Message ID:
20041127192106.GE15920@c4.convolution.nl
James Mastros skribis 2004-11-27 11:36 (+0100):
> Much more clear, saves ` for other things

I like the idea. But as a earlier thread showed, people find backticks
ugly. Strangely enough, only when used for something other than
readpipe.

The idea of being able to write

    %hash{'foo'}{'bar'}{$foo}[0]{$bar}

as

    %hash`foo`bar`$foo`0`$bar

still works very well for me. At least on all keyboards that I own, it
is easier to type. And in all fonts that I use for terminals (that'd be
only misc-fixed and 80x24 text terminals), it improves legibility too.


Juerd

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