shouting versus dotting

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> I like the use of '!' specifically for its linguistic connotation.  It 
> communicates to me that what's happening isn't normal run-time stuff.

But I'm sure you don't have a beef with function template argument 
deduction, and normal run-time stuff that ain't.

>> The one way to figure whether you'd aesthetically like something or 
>> not is to try it on some code. Unfortunately, that's not yet possible 
>> until the next release (Walter was kind enough to send me an alpha for 
>> a test drive). So my only request is kindly please hold off judgment 
>> until you can play with the notation and see how you feel.
> 
> Will do.  It's easy enough to search-replace '!' with '.'

You'll need a sed expression to not catch unary ! and != as well.


Andrei