If you&#39;re having bikeshedding problems, I feel bad for you son.  Lens got 99 operators, but a (|&gt;) ain&#39;t one.<br><br>In all seriousness though, in light of edward&#39;s detailed reasonings, I&#39;m fully behind (&amp;) instead of (#).  ML-compatibility shouldn&#39;t be the concern, and the happenstance of (&amp;) being relatively unused is a great opportunity.  Frequently used operators with concise meanings should have concise symbols - works out well!<br>

<div class="gmail_extra"><br>-Michael<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Bryan O&#39;Sullivan <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bos@serpentine.com" target="_blank">bos@serpentine.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Edward Kmett <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ekmett@gmail.com" target="_blank">ekmett@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>$. is kind of the worst of all possible worlds to me. <div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div>Agreed.</div>
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