On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 08:29:10PM -0500, David Nicol wrote: > > Binary // > > > > The analogy to || is probably a bit too clever. My first reaction > > was it's some sort of weird division operator. But it's servicable. > > It echoes the switch from | to / within the IETF RFC syntax declaration > language. Apparently the global keyboard steering committee has > deprecated the vertical bar.
You don't know how many times I've heard people complain that Perl isn't catering enough to the needs of IETF RFC authors. :-P I have a feeling that echoing the IETF is just a coincidence. -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One <purl> Hey, Schwern! THERE IS A HUGE GAZORGANSPLATTEDFARTMONGERING- LIGHTENINGBEASTASAURSOPOD BEHIND YOU! RUN, BEFORE IT GAFLUMMOXES YOUR INNARDLYBITS!
