From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-08-06T03:25:15+09:00
Subject: Re: new block notation (was: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661)

Florian Gro� wrote:

> Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> > > Yes.  The second is the show-stopper:
> >                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > I wonder what the English language will become after a couple decades
> > more of misuse by computer scientists...

> Languages change a lot. Sometimes language change can't be avoided even 
> if you don't agree with it. Same for Ruby, I guess.

Yes, nice analogy ;-).  However, there's a difference between change and
plain misuse; operator overloading in C++ comes to mind,
        nikolai

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