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Re: Backwards Compatibility (Was Calling all Meta-commands)
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Sat, 22 Mar 2003 00:26:39 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Dan Boger wrote:

On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 04:08:51PM +0000, Tim Courtney wrote:
Advance users that edit the files manually already have
to understand the file format, with everything that goes with it.

Sure, understood. I still like the idea of a more common character; even
encapsulating (META) in parenthasees is more common.

sure, that works almost as well as {}.  It's the _lack_ of any
punctuation that bothered me there.

Dan,

You program in *Perl*.  Of course you think it's good to always have
punctuation.  You probably think more punctuation == better. ;)

Steve



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  Re: Backwards Compatibility (Was Calling all Meta-commands)
 
(...) you mean $puctuation++ > ! $puctuation ? $goodness++ : $goodness-- ; ? (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: Backwards Compatibility (Was Calling all Meta-commands)
 
(...) sure, that works almost as well as {}. It's the _lack_ of any punctuation that bothered me there. :) (22 years ago, 16-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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