Bart Lateur's response summarizes well what I've heard so far from responses both to the list and privately: (1) Yes, ~ *is* somewhat used in its current role as the bitwise negation (complement) operator. (2) No, that doesn't appear to overlap my proposal for its use as a successor to -> as now used. Another cheer for the principle of least disturbance from the Laziness SIG...
- a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g Fred Heutte
- Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g Casey West
- Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g Damien Neil
- Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g Graham Barr
- Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g Bart Lateur
- Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g Bart Lateur
- Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g Fred Heutte
- Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g Graham Barr
- Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g Nathan Wiger
- Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g Larry Wall
- Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g Damien Neil
- Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g Jonathan Scott Duff
- Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g David L. Nicol
- Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g Simon Cozens
- Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g Larry Wall
- Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g Michael G Schwern
- Re: a modest proposal Re: s/./~/g John Porter