I take some of that back actually, left-to-right directionality has almost nothing to do with understanding the < and > symbols. The arrow points in the direction information is flowing, which is left-to-right for > but right-to-left for <. I mean, ł>filename˛ is pointing at the file, so the information is flowing into the file; ł<filename˛ is pointing away from the file, so the info is flowing out of it. I donąt see how it could be any clearer than that.
On 2005-05-02 16:13, "Mark Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2005-05-02 15:52, "Juerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Gaal Yahas skribis 2005-05-02 22:25 (+0300): >>> > open 'ls', '|-'; # or even >>> > open 'ls', :pipe => 'from' >> >> I dislike the hard-to-tell-apart symbols '<' and '>' for modes. 'r' and >> 'w' are much easier, and get rid of the awful left/right "mnemonic" that >> fails to make sense to GUI users. >> > Holy matter of opinion, Batman. Ś<Ś and Ś>ą are much easier to tell apart > than Śrą and Śwą; > Śrą and Śwą make me stop and think about how you spell Śreadą and Śwriteą, > whereas Ś<Ś and Ś>ą make instant visual sense, which should be appreciated by > GUI users of all people. > > Left-to-right is hardly a mnemonic; youąre writing in a language which parses > left to right, because it was created by English-speakers, and English is > written left to right. Since you pretty much have to learn English to learn > Perl, I donąt think this is too much of a hardship, even if itąs > counterintuitive to native speakers of Semitic languages. > > And since when is Perl targeting GUI users? Itąs a PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE. > Even the original Mac developers used a command-line interface when writing > the code. > > >
