SAMP MType parameters issue

[Alasdair Allan]

Mike Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Thanks to all for the explanation.  It isn't worth a battle but in  
> general I'm
> not happy with the idea of a message syntax being dictated by what  
> is enabled by syntactic sugar;  are we on the road to adding a '$'  
> so Perl can do tricks as well?

Like Mike I'm not very happy about this idea. For instance Perl has  
problems with the '.' character in the mtype when attemting to do the  
same sort of syntaxtic sugar, and I neither asked for, nor recieved,  
quarter.

I think it sets a bad precedent, but can't be bothered having the  
argument.

Al.