Hi,
Guys, this is like junior school in here.
Yep.
Let me put some things in perspective:
No, let me. Greg worked his butt off the entire weekend looking for the flaws in *all* the options available to us, including a couple of new ones that never even reached the list before he rejected them on technical grounds. Thanks to his efforts, we already have a pretty good picture of the strengths and weaknesses of each approach - and as should be obvious to all by now, there is no perfect solution. Whatever we chose, it's a compromise.
What we're hearing here about European keyboard layouts is useful info because it gives some idea of how popular/unpopular the backslash would be as a solution and why, but it shouldn't carry as much weight as the accessibility argument against the triple colon. One is liveable, if not optimal, whereas the other is plainly not liveable for some. We've already heard two workarounds for the backslash issues, but there are none at all for ::: + imperfect eyesight.
Clarity and simplicity are the two chief requisites. We're all fully aware of that, from Engine developer to n00b, so there's really no point in discussing it to death on-list at this stage.
- Steph
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