Re: question on <const>

[Francisco Olarte <folarte@...>]

Andrea:

On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 7:54 PM Andrea <andrea.l.vitali@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a reason to have opening and closing mark? Or one could get away with something like !close or close! as Philippe was proposing?

Or use ¡const! ( they are portuguese speakers, I'm not sure if they
have taht like in spanish ) (sarcasm, in case someone does not notice
)

> Actually I like the use of the exclamation mark as it draws attention to something peculiar.

Seriously. NO PLEASE. Many people read "!const" as "NOT CONSTANT",
specifically if you have a C / perl / many other languages background
( and many of us do mixed C[++]-lua projects ).

It's bad enough for me they chose ~ for not ( I used  ~=  a lot for
approximately equal ( very frequent in my writings ) in the
CP/M-messydog times, then came perl where I found ~ natural for match,
along with its variants due to this, then comes lua where it means
not, I have to correct != and ! in the lint stage of nearly every lua
module I write ( exception being the ones where ~= and ~ are not used
). I'm constantly tempted to tweak my interpreters to allow it, and/or
preprocess every source to change it on save.

Francisco Olarte.