On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:15 PM, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:
> On Jun 9, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>> I actually like :> pretty well. It looks more like =>, and has nice correspondence to := for named function params.
>>
>> Colon was removed from the set of allowed operator-name characters years
>> ago. There are conflicts with various usages (ecpg & psql variables).
>> This is actually a place where the current := behavior could cause some
>> issues, though I'm not aware of any at the moment.
>
> Oh, that's a shame.
>
> In that case, how about:
>
> 'foo' >> 'bar'
Well, that doesn't look much like an arrow, at least not to me...
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