Re: [q-lang-users] Q 7.2 RC1 Issue 2: Notation

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

Hi Keith,

thanks for chiming in. :)

> Suggestion #1: please, use "%" and not "over" or any other perlish "line noise".

I agree, those perlish conglomerates of arbitrary punctuation chars just 
make programs unreadable, especially for the casual user of a 
programming language. (IIRC, the last Perl version that I really did 
some programming with was version 2.)

> In terms of heritage, Q has more in common with the language families / traditions that I have mentioned in my "Suggestion #2", than Lisp / Scheme, and (especially) C / Perl / etc.

That's certainly true.

> Okay, I will shut up now. But I think that I may have held my tongue too long...

No need to shut up, you didn't start a flamewar, you made some very 
reasonable remarks. Please continue to do so.

It might seem silly to spend so much time and bandwidth on an apparently 
trivial issue like this, but I'd like to get this right before Q 7.2 
comes out, because I hope that this can be the stable version (except 
for bug and portability fixes) for quite some time, which I can base my 
forthcoming book on.

Ok, it looks like we are leaning more to the side of "%" now. Rob, can 
you be convinced, in the light of all those arguments? :)

Albert

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