On 14.09.2015 10:41, konsolebox wrote: > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 4:32 PM, konsolebox <konsole...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Kent Fredric <kentfred...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 14 September 2015 at 20:22, konsolebox <konsole...@gmail.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 >
Please don't add any more syntactic sugar to dependency strings. People might become confused about stuff like this: =cat/foo-1.3.1_rc3_p20130829-r42+[!a=,!b?,c(+)]:3= Is there any real need to express this in a single line except for saving a single line? - Manuel
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