Let me just chime in here that I have been reading all the messages via mutt in an xterm font in which the tilde is at the top of the space, and this has in no way affected my appreciation of the new operators.
I don't want them to look like arrows, because that's reminiscent of ->, which is misleading as to the direction of data flow. Visually, I think of <~ and ~> as modifications of the shell redirect operators, which works very well. -- Mark REED | CNN Internet Technology 1 CNN Center Rm SW0831G | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Atlanta, GA 30348 USA | +1 404 827 4754