Jonathan Lang writes: > Larry Wall wrote: > > > I don't see much downside to \. as a long dot. > > The only remaining problem that I see for the long dot is largely > orthogonal to the selection of the first and last characters - namely, > that your only choice for filler is whitespace.
Why's that a "problem"? Folks want to be able to line stuff up, and to split statements over multiple lines. This is now possible. Smylers
