I was aluding to this tongue-in-cheek article I had just posted. I think it's a more common symbol than, say, @list».*foo, which is actual Perl 6. At least it has precedent, rather than being something totally new.

What is a "urxvt"?

After posting, I noticed that it did not show well in the font my browser chose for it. The hook is too small and it is easily confused with a solid vertical bar.

So assuming font issues were taken care, what do you think of seeing ⌈$x⌉ to mean round up to an integer using ceiling semantics? Even the well-known trunc is not known at a glance to have floor or toward-zero semantics while the synonym ⌊⌋ would be obvious.

Even more so in domain-specific notation: why invent a legal identifier name when a symbol or notation is already in use with the intended meaning?

—John

In reply to Re^3: Clever vs. Readable by John M. Dlugosz
in thread Clever vs. Readable by Anonymous Monk

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