"with" still sucks + removing features + adding features

[Georg Wrede]

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Even Perl would turn its nose at a significant semantic difference
>> brought by the third period.
> 
> Not true: Perl has a '..' operator and a '...' operator with distinct
> but similar meanings.  And as much as I loathe Perl in general, I don't
> see anything wrong with that.  I am open to a reasonable alternate syntax.

Having both .. and ... wouldn't be too bad. They're insistinguishable 
only as long as one is not expecting a distinction. But with a 
programming language, they look dissimilar enough.

A side benefit would be to be able to specify inclusive and exclusive 
ranges both within switch statements and range contexts.

'0' ... '9'
'a' ... 'z'
a .. b
a ... b
0 .. middle
middle .. $

Of course, this idea will be drowned in a 2-month bicycle shed color 
discussion about which should be the inclusive range and which the 
exclusive one. And after that somebody suggests tokens for the remaining 
two inclusion permutations, and then we really can forget all this for good.