On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 08:40:07AM -0700, William Michels via perl6-users wrote:
> > \ > {} > > \\ > {} > > \\\ > {} > Curiously, I seem to create an object in my REPL environment when I enter > either a single-, double-, or triple-backslash. ... Your backslash destroys the newline so the input is non-existent. The empty hash seems an implementation artifact; a place to capture the type and value of the code. Perhaps issuing a prompt as if a bare newline was typed would be better. Witness: > my $x = 1 + 3 \ {} > my $x = ( 1 + 3 \ ) 4 > \ # comment Nil > ; Nil Rob