On (22/09/02 10:37), Me wrote:
> From: "Me" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: <( .... )> vs <{ .... }>
> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 10:37:59 -0500
>
> In several forms of courier, and some other text fonts
> I view code in, I find it hard to visually distinguish the
> pattern element:
>
> <( ... )>
>
> from:
>
> <{ ... }>
>
> What about replacing the former syntax with:
>
> <? ... >
>
If you can't distinguish braces and parentheses (or quotes and
backquotes in some other fonts), you are in deep trouble in many
languages including perl5 BTW. Languages should not bend themselves
(like with trigraph in C) for such particular cases. We have a
paucity of characters to start with, so don't add more constraints.
Good enough fonts are availaible anyway.
>
> --
> ralph
