I suppose another good thing is that it makes unneccesary the balanced brace rule in qq{} that was there in Perl 5: all braces need to be backwhacked now. However, all braces need to be backwhacked now. Ugh.
I was dreading code-generating heredocs, but with the inclusion of \qq[], that turns out not to be a problem:
my $code = eval <<'CODE'; sub () { my \qq[$name] = 0; ... } CODE
Didn't know that worked in single-quoted strings. Cute.
Actually, I have to wonder why &foo('bar', 'baz') wasn't on Larry's list. Is there a reason for that?
Probably because &foo('bar', 'baz') isn't a function call. All that does is refer to a function &foo with a siglet ('bar','baz'), which means either nothing or a syntax error. The function call looks like foo('bar', 'baz');
Hmm...breaks the parallel with {} and []. But it seems to me that &foo.('bar','baz') should work, at least outside a string.
Roles are nice, but don't forget about the other mechanisms in Perl for such things.
Erm, properties *are* roles. Your example is the same as mine.
True, I suppose...
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