2008/4/24 Chris Smith
3. Don't get me wrong; I'm definitely not arguing for this ($) associativity change, for example, and my objection is the backward compatibility. But ultimately, it's more like a combination of incompatibility and the lack of a really compelling story on why it should be one way or the other. I have a hard time calling this a "fix"; it's more like a change of personal taste. If I saw this as really broken, then I'd say we need to talk about how to fix it.
How about the argument that the right associative ($), in conjuction with (.) is less expressive than that left associative one in conjunction with (.)? That is, more parentheses can be avoided. Everything you can do with chained right associative ($), you can do with (.) and a single ($), whereas there are things you can express with chained left-associative ($) which you need parentheses to express without it. - Cale