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