On 01/31/2013 07:16 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2013, at 2:20 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm happy to take opinions about this, and I expected some bikeshedding, but your reaction is contrary to everything
othershave told me. Mostly they love the operators.
>>
>> I guess that '~>' and '~>>' would work as well as '->' and '->>'.
> Or +> and +>>, since ~ is set very high and small by some fonts (where the fontmakers though of it as a kind of
superscriptcharacter).
>
> I suppose that := is out of the question?
>
Even if it were I would not on any account use it. As an old Ada
programmer my mind just revolts at the idea of using this for anything
but assignment.
cheers
andrew
