Re: [PATCH 0/2] [RFD] Using gitrevisions :/search style with other operators

> On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>
>> Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>
>>> You would need HEAD{^{/foo}^@}x3, or use special rule that HEAD^{/foo}x2
>>> means really HEAD^{/foo}^@^{/foo}, with ^@ used to join them.
>>
>> That said, does ^2x500 really do something meaningful that a person
>> would ever need?  I like the
>>
>>       ^{:nth(3)/foo}
>>
>> syntax because perl6 supports m:nth(3)/foo/, suggesting a menu of
>> already-defined modifiers to implement when they prove useful, known
>> already to a certain subset of the audience and proven useful already
>> in a different context.
>
> I like the ^{:nth(3)/foo} syntax as well. Though I'm not familiar with Perl 6,
> this does have the benefit of being fairly obvious to the reader as to what it
> means.