Thus it was written in the epistle of Erik Lechak, > > I guess my biggest complaint was that underscore would be the only single > character operator that would be in danger of being lumped into the variable > name. I forgot about x . I use it all the time. If x has that > constraint why not the underscore.
Because there is conceptual dissonance between the purpose and the look. Why should the thing which glues strings together require spaces around it? Ted -- Ted Ashton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | From the Tom Swifty collection: Southern Adventist University | "I've declared the variable X so that its Deep thought to be found at | value is saved from one procedure http://www.southern.edu/~ashted | invocation to the next", said Tom | ecstatically.