On Jun 17, 2005, at 10:42 PM, John Siracusa wrote:
>  But the truth is that /
>  really does look file-path-y to me, and just plain old ugly.  I  
>  think at
>  least two other people had similar reactions (Martin Kuehl and Carl  
>  Franks).

David Storrs, reporting to show solidarity, sir(acusa)!

>  Maybe .:: has even more detractors, I dunno.  All I know is that I  
>  dislike
>  ./ and I'm trying to come up with an alternative.  What say you  
>  all?  Too
>  many dots in .::?  Surely ./ isn't as good as it gets...

I'm not fond of .:: because I don't think it's sufficiently visually  
distinct from .:.

I don't have a better suggestion...but that's mostly because I  
dislike this entire concept of secondary sigils.  I already get to  
have the "Perl is line noise!" conversation _way_ too often...I don't  
feel that we need to give the trolls more ammunition.  For that  
matter, I'm a Perl zealot and /I/ think they're ugly and obfuscatory.

For what it's all worth, I suppose.


--Dks