From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@groucho.cs.psu.edu>
To: John Mackin (_You_ hide, they seek.) <john@physiol.su.oz.au>
Cc: The rc Mailing List <rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>
Subject: Re: Question about redirection
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 22:06:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <92Jul20.220710edt.2583@groucho.cs.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Jul 92 20:45:52 EDT." <199207211045.18924.rc.babat@physiol.su.oz.au>
The point is that |[m=n] is confusing because it uses '=' in such a
different way than >[m=n]. Wouldn't |[m|n] have been more obvious?
Aside from the deeper semantic issues, it is "m:=n" vs "m->n", but with
the same symbol '=' stuck in the middle. Yes, you can "think about it
the right way", but why should one have to? Grumble, grumble, grumble. :-)
By the way, does anyone miss "if not" (from Tom Duff's rc)? I don't.
Anyone really like overloading static to mean both "own" and
"private"? I don't.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1992-07-21 2:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1992-07-16 10:13 malte
1992-07-16 16:18 ` Scott Schwartz
1992-07-21 0:45 ` John Mackin
1992-07-21 2:06 ` Scott Schwartz [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1992-07-15 10:44 malte
1992-07-15 11:00 ` Tim.Goodwin
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