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Postings from November 2004
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:35:37 -0800, Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> wrote: > The basic problem with «...» is that most of its uses > were turning out to be more useful that the corresponding <...>. > In fact, I was thinking about all this on the way home from Seattle > yesterday (a 15-hour drive), and I think I'm ready to propose a Great > Angle Bracket Renaming. I'm going to be difficult and say I don't actually like this proposal. I think « and » are much more attractive than < and >, and I don't mind the extra work to type them. « and » are more visually distinctive, at least in my mind. Specifically, I like that they line up with the tops of lower case letters. But I doubt that matters much. :-) use CGI «:standard»; my @list = «foo bar baz»; my @other = %hash«several keys here»; use CGi <:standard>; my @list = <foo bar baz>; my @other = %hash<several keys here>; (Those are written out for my own benefit; consider it a goodbye.) -- matt diephouse http://matt.diephouse.com