Re:Concatenating strings (Score 2, Informative)

'He stresses the importance of good huffman coding, then goes on to change the string concatenation operator "." to a three character sequence " _ "'

Actually, I'd be surprised to see that stick around once Unicode support is rock-solid on the popular platforms. Larry mentions using non-ASCII operators, and I'm almost sure string concatenation will use one of these.

For my part, though, I actually like spaces around most binary operators, and wouldn't be upset to see it enforced in the language. That way, people would write unreadable code in my style of unreadable coding. ;)

I'm looking forward to non-ASCII operators. I understand they were much loved on the Lisp machines, and much hated in APL. Different ways of handling things in the two languages, though, so it might be a contextual thing. It will be interesting to see how they are received after twenty years or so of disuse.