The reason we ended up at ./method was simply because it was the best
suggestion anyone had.
Compared to the previous suggestions it was way ahead.
It's other advantage is that (except for on nordic keyboards) dot and
slash are generally right next to each other, so the expense of using it
is two chars and one fingering position, as they would likely be hit by
fourth and fifth fingers (for touch typist style) and some other two
fingers for the rest of us, and only 1 cm travel for hunt and peck.
It has a very low RSI index :) (something I don't think we take into
account enough as it is when we use the Huffman name to justify
shortening something)
So call it (2ch|2key|1pos|1cm) cost
.::method on the other hand is 2 chars, 4 keystrokes, one of which must
be held down between the two colons, is a strech for touch typists,
requires you to get you hand completely away from the letters for the
rest, and god help the hunt and peckers.
Something like (3ch|4.5key|2pos|5cm) cost.
And I dislike having a THIRD sigil even more than I dislike the second.
Adam K
I think $ is way more objectionable to the lily-white non-Perl heathens, but
I don't really care about them either way. I'm just saying ./ screams "file
path" to me, or maybe even "typo-ed Java/C++ comment" or something.
Certainly not "method invocation" or "implicit invocant." The .: thing,
OTOH, totally works for me and I've always liked it. I'm just trying to
stretch it to cover both public and private. Maybe there's something better
than both.
