David L. Nicol writes:
: I am going to miss doublequoting being the default quoting for
: here strings. I find that to be a very nice optimization and
: would like to know more about the reasoning behind taking it
: away. I worry that official standard p6 will be more difficult
: to use than official standard p5.
Mostly I didn't want to deal with the muddy case of where the
identifier might be a quote operator, possibly even a user-defined
one. But it's not something I feel implacable about. I'm mostly just
trying to pare Perl's list of oh-by-the-ways down to a dull roar.
You'll note that a great deal of what's going on comes under the
category of simplification (even if half the Slashdot crowd doesn't
understand that). I'm particularly partial to the simplifications that
allow us to increase the power of other parts of the language. This
particular simplification is only a little bit that way, though I can
imagine deciding to extend << syntax in other directions someday, in
which case we might want to put random function names after the <<.
But certainly we're not taking the autoquoting away from {} or =>,
so I suppose there's something to be said for keeping it here too.
Larry
