Re: Larry's Apocalypse 1

[John Porter]

Larry Wall wrote:
> There will probably be optional modifiers before colon
> for various reasons.  This has the result that we could distinguish an
> inner:* operator from and outer:* operator.

I balk at the proposition of Yet Another Namespace.


> It also means that every operator has a function name,

I would think that would be the case, regardless of the
form the general operator syntax takes.


> It might even mean that we can have a URL literal type, 

I trust that you will think long and hard about that.


> if there's any good reason to treat a URL as more than
> just a string

And that is what's illuminating, imho.


-- 
John Porter