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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: <HANDLE> = @array?
Message-ID: <7147@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 23 Feb 90 05:43:38 GMT
References: <15193@bfmny0.UU.NET> <100197@convex.convex.com>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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Against all the (valid) arguments of symmetry and aesthetic appeal stands
a simple readability issue: you can currently glance at a program and
find where the lines are read in.  Having <> as an output symbol would
militate against this.

Besides, any cosmologist will tell you that life would be awfully boring
without spontaneous symmetry breaking.

Larry