Re: a note on notations

[Alan Watson <alan@oldp.astro.wisc.edu>]

Sigh.  I already use % as an escape to my mailer from the shell.
Please don't use up any more characters than you need to.

>From past experience, I realize that I view all things to do with $
differently from everyone else on the planet, but I think of $ as
corresponding to the phrase `the value of,' and this applies quite
nicely to return values of code as well as to variables.

Giving it a funky name because it's a funky concept is, well, pretty
lame at best; there are a lot of new features in es.