language design question

[Fredrik Lundh]

"guthrie" wrote:

> But if (as I proposed..!) the user interface is better if presented as a
> method. one could porovide convenience methods which would then
> interface to these underlying library functions; yes?

but if it isn't?  and why this obsession with superficial syntax details?  there's
a lot more to a language than what standard syntax it uses for trivial things...

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