[m-dev.] Syntactic sugar for functor matching

[Fergus Henderson]

On 02-Nov-2001, Peter Schachte <schachte at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> And aside from confusing object
> and meta in discussions, what's wrong with "..."?

Nothing.  But confusing object and meta in discussions
is enough of a problem to veto "...", IMHO.

We discussed a number of other options in the meeting,
including "___", "etc", "_etc", "_etc_", and "_..._".
Several of these got some support, but all of them
had at least one person saying they really didn't like it.

Then Ralph suggested using "^..." and everyone seemed to like that.

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