From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2003-09-12T06:34:07+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: MetaTags 1.0

Jason Williams (jason@jasonandali.org.uk) wrote:
> > 
> > c = Caml << "one hump or two" (read 'from')
>   
> This seems like a lot of effort to save two keystrokes to me. What
> am I missing?

You were here for the beginning of the week?  When it started as a
discussion of %y{ ... }.  (No, wait, it started as MetaTags 1.0.  But
now we're all jointly caravaning off in the desert.)

So I guess %y{ ... } was too controversial.  Obscene is a better word.
But it turns out there's a need (or so they say).  So hippity-hop:

  %_{ ... }
  %YAML{ ... }
  YAML { ... }
  YAML " ... "
  " ... " & Caml
  " ... " >> Caml
  Caml << " ... "

I still really like %y{ ... } and Nobu introduced a clean patch to do so.
(offroaders only.)

_why