Re: Pike 8.0 RC1

Excerpts from Sup Auto-generated Fake Sender's message of 2014-10-28 14:35:01 +0100:
> (Perl6 has replaced A?B:C with A??B!!C for reasons that are not clear
> to me.)

i was curious, so i went to #perl6 and asked. straight from the horses mouth,
that is larry wall himself:

TimToady:#perl6: C wasted two perfectly good characters on a single operator that can 
                 be better put to use composing other characters
TimToady:#perl6: er, operators
TimToady:#perl6: (or as themselves, like we use : for invocant separator)
TimToady:#perl6: that reduces the ambiguity
TimToady:#perl6: in addition, ? and : are almost invisible as control flow, ?? and !! 
                 stand out much more visually
TimToady:#perl6: third, all the other "thunky" operatory like && and || and doubled, 
                 so this one is too
PerlJam:#perl6: eMBee: plus !! is more evocative of "notness" for the false side of 
                the ternary
TimToady:#perl6: fourth, :: is used elsewhere, so we switched to !!
TimToady:#perl6: fifth, what PerlJam said
gtodd:#perl6: plus !! suggests to me something was not happening
gtodd:#perl6: oh yeah
TimToady:#perl6: we use ? and ! lots of places in Perl 6 for true/false, so this fits 
                            right in

http://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2014-10-28#i_9577219

greetings, martin.

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