if we kept <> with their current meaning but added it
as a handier whitespace quoter I would like that.

p5:
        @things = < one two three four five>;

_is_ currently a syntax error. In my mind. Not in my 5.005_03.
however, where it appears to behave just like qw does, 
except that it does interpolation, which qw does not.

Is the proposal, then, to abandon the interpolation within
angle-quotes?  Or just to give the feature some much-needed 

> perl -le '@things = < one two three four a$"a five>; print "@things"'
one two three four a a five

> perl -le '@things = qw< one two three four a$"a five>; print "@things"'
one two three four a$"a five

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