From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-08-05T21:20:34+09:00
Subject: Re: new block notation (was: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661)

"David A. Black" <dblack@wobblini.net> writes:

>> I don't agree.  Punctuation symbol nor sequence of them itself is not
>> a problem.  The problems can be caused by context dependent
>> interpretation of symbols, I think.
>
> But if you had a language (and I imagine there is one somewhere :-)
> that used unique strings of punctuation for all its keywords, it would
> look pretty bad.  Obviously that's not an issue here, but it does
> suggest that there can be such a thing as too much punctuation, even
> if it's unambiguous.

I guess you don't like APL and friends. :-)

> David
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