From: Jason Williams Date: 2003-09-12T18:40:09+09:00 Subject: Re: ANN: MetaTags 1.0 In article <20030911213411.GA38826@rysa.inetz.com>, why the lucky stiff wrote: > 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.) Yep, I saw all that, but as I understood it the benefit of %y{ ... } was brevity. There must be more of a benefit, since the later notations don't have much in the way of brevity. Incidentally, I don't remember seeing this one suggested yet; c = Caml["one hump or two"] ....which seems neater to me.