Juerd wrote:
>  What does this have to do with perl6-internals? F-up to p6l.

Sorry! Typing faster than my brain is working. Resent to the right list.

> >If I have a complicated mathematical expression
>  
>  If you have anything that is complicated, a verbose version should
>  always be considered, if only to avoid getting lost in punctuation. This
>  is not specific to ./foo in any way.

If I'm calling a method on $?SELF five times in a statement and you're 
only calling one once, wouldn't such an operator be more important to me 
than to you?

I'm not arguing that having a short way to call a method on the current 
invocant-- be it operator or keyword-- is a bad thing. It's a great 
feature, and why I'm delurking to comment on this. If 'o.' really 
doesn't work, it doesn't work. We could pick a different operator. I'm 
just saying that the particular choice of './' doesn't work for me (and 
evidently a number of other people).

>  It is visually much more suited for action than functional use:
>  
>      ./foo($bar, $baz);      # beautiful
>  
>      print 5 + ./foo($bar);  # ugly
>  

Right here, in my mind, is an argument against it. I'd end up using the 
operator in some places and not others, because in some contexts it'd be 
"ugly" and others "beautiful". Thus further reducing the visual 
consistency of the code. I haven't yet given up on the idea that there's 
a shortened operator that would be more universally readable.

> >at the top of my code if I have to, but I want to make one last gasp at 
> >getting $Larry / @Larry to reconsider this.
>  
>  I find "o." absolutily horrifying. But then, that's apparently how you
>  think of "./", so we have to trust Larry's decision on this. I don't
>  think further discussing this is really fruitful, as it has already been
>  discussed more than is good for us.

Fair point. I mean no offense, nor do I wish to beat a dead horse. I 
just want to make sure it's dead, instead of merely resting.

-- 
       Matt

       Matthew Zimmerman
       Interdisciplinary Biophysics, University of Virginia
       http://www.people.virginia.edu/~mdz4c/