On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:57:31AM +0200, Allison Randal wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure about this last comment -- I think I can imagine
>> that other language implementations (including new ones we haven't
>> thought of yet but suddenly becomes possible with Parrot) might want to 
>> make use of gather/take semantics if they're readily available --
>> especially because they can be very hard to otherwise
>> implement when they're not readily available.  And compile-time
>> constants are pretty cheap.  :-)
>
> Absolutely. But for that it shouldn't be called "CONTROL_TAKE", because  
> that's meaningless outside Perl 6.  
> [...]
> The principle is that global things  
> should be language-agnostic, and not use terminology that's confusing to  
> all the other languages.

What's the language-agnostic term for this, then?

Pm

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