On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:46:30AM -0400, John Siracusa wrote: : On 10/20/05 11:37 AM, Larry Wall wrote: : > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:32:14AM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: : > : The idea of punishing programmers who choose to use certain operating system : > : or locales just doesn't seem right to me. : > : > That's why we provide ugly ASCII workarounds for all of them. We just : > haven't decided what the appropriate ugly ASCII workaround for ยข should be. : : So...no joy on the class(T) builtin/macro/whatever? Does it look too much : like a cast?
It looks too much like a class declaration, and we're not declaring a class. We're just declaring a variable that holds something that "does class". Larry
