[paledot]

In theory I like the idea of making better use of file descriptors other than stdin and stderr. It seems like a powerful feature of *nix that never really caught on, except with that one sysadmin at work who writes insane one-liners with fifteen pipes.

In practice, I find the syntax needlessly obtuse, and numbered file descriptors are rare enough in the real world that most casual observers will have no idea what's going on.