From: Nobuyoshi Nakada Date: 2013-10-28T13:29:59+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:58058] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #9049] Shorthands (a:b, *) for inclusive indexing (13/10/26 17:11), boris_stitnicky (Boris Stitnicky) wrote: > @mohawkjoh: Tilde is bad, too. From basic ASCII (I looked), everything is taken, except > for ^, and which should be avoided because it means power in many languages. ^ is XOR operator.