I think rule 5 is another way of saying "Do not expect everyone els to use the same editor configuration and a color printer as you do". It is nothing do do with editability and all to do with presentation.

There are two issues with your added richness: those keys don't exist on most keyboards and Perl already has a very rich set of operators, sigils and special variables. Adding another several layers of meaning by using special markup (that has to be composed) and borrowing syntax from APL will simply exacerbate the problem for people who already struggle to remember the full richness provided by their chosen form of expression.

Why, some people even struggle to remember simple stuff like </br> is not HTML - how do you expect them to cope with anything truly complicated?

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re: Code Readability. Break Rule Number 5? by GrandFather
in thread Code Readability. Break Rule Number 5? by DACONTI

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