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Aaron Brown
> >> Maybe it's time to introduce a space operator.
> >> Maybe not :-)
> >
> > Why not? There's a classic C++ proposal along the same lines...
> > http://public.research.att.com/~bs/whitespace98.pdf
> 
> I was taking a quick skim over this paper and didn't realize 
> it was written with tongue in cheek until I saw:
> 
> > Multi-character names are a relic of languages that relied 
> heavily on 
> > global name[s] and encouraged overly-large scopes.

The release date of the document is self explanatory :-)