Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 13:01, Jonathan E. Paton wrote:
>
>> I'm I beating this point to death, or do I have to write
>> the RPC:
>>
>> "Keep the {} and [] notation for hashes and arrays"
>>
>> or
>>
>> "Save our array!"
>
> Let's boil this RFC down to one short phrase:
>
> If {} goes away in Perl6, then everything you've heard about Perl6 being
> "not really all that different from Perl5" is either a lie or a damned
> lie. People keep saying "it's just Perl5, but instead of syntax X, you
> now use syntax Y". Well, as both X and Y lists grow longer....
>
> I know this is harsh, but really folks, you're pulling Perl apart
> looking at a half-dozen good features and building a new language around
> them. I don't fault you for this (it's a great way to come up with a new
> language), but I'm beginning to get the feeling that going from Perl5 to
> Perl6 is going to be almost the same level of effort as going from
> Pascal to ANSI C!
>
> Also, just wondering:
>
> $_[_][EMAIL PROTECTED] _=_0_-_
>
> does that work the way I expect it to?
Dunno, what do you expect it to do?. To my way of thinking there's
going to be a syntax error at the third '_'. But I'm not entirely
certain of that.
--
Piers
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
-- Jane Austen?
