Re: [gentoo-dev] Request to add ~> atom prefix operator on Portage.

[konsolebox]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 4:32 PM, konsolebox <konsolebox@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On 14 September 2015 at 20:22, konsolebox <konsolebox@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> If we use an arithmetic operator like ~> then that could be decided
>>
>> As a counter proposal I'd suggest a different suffix character than
>> "*" instead. It just seems less confusing to have something like
>>
>> =cat/foo-1.30+
>>
>> Instead of
>>
>> ~>cat/foo-1.30
>>
>> Because ~> to me conveys some combination of ~ and > effects, when it
>> is neither of those two.
>
> I thought ~> is good as it's already famous to fellow Ruby users but I
> don't mind.  =cat/foo-1.30+ seems good as well.

@cat/foo-1.30 is also another.  It only uses one symbol doesn't look
bad if negated: !@cat/foo-1.30