Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 01:46:22 +0200
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 at 01:26, David Rector via SG7 <sg7_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> In particular I would suggest $ as the inverse of ^; that visually says to me it is "cashing in” a higher-order/meta object, bringing the ^ back down to earth.
$ is not up for grabs for C++. This has been discussed in SG7 and
elsewhere before, but for the purposes of this discussion,
suffice it to say that there are existing tools that rely on $ not
being C++, and those tools can do balanced-token parsing
of C++ source code, without parsing C++, because they know that $ isn't C++.
> In particular I would suggest $ as the inverse of ^; that visually says to me it is "cashing in” a higher-order/meta object, bringing the ^ back down to earth.
$ is not up for grabs for C++. This has been discussed in SG7 and
elsewhere before, but for the purposes of this discussion,
suffice it to say that there are existing tools that rely on $ not
being C++, and those tools can do balanced-token parsing
of C++ source code, without parsing C++, because they know that $ isn't C++.
Received on 2021-02-15 17:46:35