On Apr 30, 2008, at 15:14 , Jon Lang wrote:

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
It occurs to me that this shouldn't be new keywords, but adverbs, i.e. ``is
:strict Dog''.

On a side note, I'd like to make a request of the Perl 6 community
with regard to coding style: could we please have adverbal names that
are, well, adverbs?  "is :strict Dog" brings to my mind the English

-ly suffixes everywhere conflicts with Huffman coding, which per @Larry is a primary design concern. Consider the leading colon to be the Perl6 equivalent.

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