Re: a note on notations

[Colman Reilly <creilly@maths.tcd.ie>]

	[stuff about `foo vs `{foo}]


     However, since you and Byron both think that `foo is a good idea, my
     chances of getting you to drop it and only allow `{foo} and <>{foo}
     (or %{foo} or ${foo} or whatever) are about as small as my chances
     of getting John to compile es with readline using gcc (but perhaps
     the effort is not quite so misguided).

Pity, because I quite like the visual simplicity of the `{foo} form; it
saves me actually having to think about what I'm reading. I'd much prefer
requiring that we use ${foo} at all times; I find using quotes for taking
output uninituitive. I'd like %{foo} (uniquely, no % foo, which is ugly)
for taking return value and ${foo} for taking returning stdout.

As a side note, we have about a half dozen people using es over here and
the number is about to go up as the manual emerges. How big is the user
base at the moment?

Colman
     
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