one man's "glyph noise" is another man's "taking advantage of the symbol characters to add expressive power". of course, the end of that road is APL, but i'd ar

one man's "glyph noise" is another man's "taking advantage of the symbol characters to add expressive power". of course, the end of that road is APL, but i'd argue that for instance /foo/ is more readable in code than regexp("foo") because it interrupts the flow of the line a lot less.