--- "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
This may be the case, but it would be nice to limit the ambiguity. If we're going to be stealing a number of linguistic ideas (with the side effect of transforming our entire language from a pidgin to a creole), then we might as well consider that a couple of extra letters to introduce clarity may not be all that bad. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Perl and CGI - http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ Personal blog - http://publius-ovidius.livejournal.com/ Tech blog - http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/
