[RFC] Shorter alternative representation for `of'

[jpl]

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Greetings,

There appear to be two themes in the thread:  shortening "of" for
"left-to-right" selection, and also shortening "of" for the
"right-to-left" selection.

Suppose "bar" is a field of record "foo", using the apostrophe we'd have:

bar OF foo          ---------->           bar'foo         (looks
great, maintains the classic Algol68 ordering.)

considering the other ordering (found in more recent languages), this
may be possible:

bar OF foo         ---------->           foo.bar  (looks great,
familiar to many).

There is a subtle visual elegance to this as well.  Notice how the
"classic" ordering has a symbol "up top" of the line, while the
"modern" ordering has the symbol "down low".  Kinda neat, IMO.

Regards, James