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Re: a note on notations
Re $ instead of <>, the idea of rich return values is new with es, so
it ought to be a new character. Using $ I think will be more confusing
than helpful to people who are heavily into the Unix mindset (like me,
but I'm trying to adjust! :-) That's why I suggested `:'.
I told Paul that % was out because I was saving it for job control
(Splut! Yum, tomatoes from the crowd. As Foghorn Leghorn once said
though, "It's a joke son, a joke!" :-).
Arnold