Why we will use obj$func() often

[Mark Hahn]

"Mike C. Fletcher" <mcfletch at rogers.com> wrote ...

> $ is basically a character as far as glyphs go, it's a
> full-height glyph with ascenders and descenders, is very similar to a
> capital S, and generally makes reading code much harder as it obscures
> word-shape; .this or even self.this is much easier to read because you
> can pick out the words using your learned vocabulary of word-shapes.

Well I have a problem now.  I gave people on my mailing list a choice
between $var, `var, ~var,  and ^var.  The current tally is four votes for
$var and none for any of the others.  According to your criteria, $var is
the worst and ~var should be the best.  Am I correct?