shouting versus dotting

[Moritz Warning]

On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:50:47 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Alexander Pánek wrote:
>> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
[..]
> I believe the clear distinction is not only unnecessary, but
> undesirable. We should actively fight against it.
> 
> Andrei

I also believe the distinction is unnecessary.


About the exclamation mark vs dot.
I believe the dot would be worse:

- code completion in IDEs get confused

- '!' may be an unary operator, but '.' is also some kind of operator 
that is often used otherwise.

- changing the syntax always hurts, even if it might be easy to do so.
  The justification should be strong.