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

[konsolebox]

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.