Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: A comparison by example of keyword argument styles"
>     on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:07:01 +0900, "Trans" <transfire / gmail.com> writes:
>
> |I hate to say, but it seems like the selection of a character commonly
> |used for assignment operations, i.e. ':' as a prefix for symbols has
> |come back to haunt. Go back in time Matz! Throw out the '=>', use ':'
> |instead, and chose us another symbol symbol!
>
> For example?  It that good enough to break thousands of lines of code?

Not if you go back in time it won't ;)

Might have used backtick `abc, kind of like Lisp 'literal, or maybe
backticks `abc`. Leading underscore _abc might have worked well too.
But as you say, that's a lot of code breaking --that would be a major
shift.

T.

P.S. If you're keeping ':' might you deprecate '::'?  That'd help.