At 09:33 AM 4/24/2001 -0400, John Porter wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > The one downside is that you'd have essentially your own private language.
> > Whether this is a bad thing or not is a separate issue, of course.
>
>IIUC, this ability is precisely what Larry was saying Perl6 would have.
I am passing no judgement on the goodness or badness of the proposal,
merely observing that you will be working with a variant of perl, and that
may have some issues. It's not my call as to whether you should or not. (It
may be, however, that a language variant would cause more cognitive
dissonance in many people than a completely different language. IOW,
switching to python in mid-source may cause folks fluent in perl less
trouble than switching to prefixless highlander perl)
Having done this myself (Dec BASIC allowed this for the longest time) I
find that it isn't a big deal if it's a known thing. I am not most people,
though.
Dan
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