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On 05/30/2012 12:29 AM, Niklas Holsti wrote:
>
> Please, not "&", that would make calls look too much like calls in C with
> pointer parameters. "&" being the C "address-of" operator. "&" is also a large
> glyph, as tall as upper-case letters, making a following identifier harder to
> recognize at a glance. How about "~"? Meaning, I want "approximately" this
> value, but converted as necessary.

I've always promoted "\" as the conversion operator, primarily to confuse C people.

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Jeff Carter
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