At 06:40 PM 5/4/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>Dan Sugalski writes:
>: That's cool. I was just thinking it might not be a bad idea for us to
>: set some equivalencies up in advance. If not, that's fine too. (I'll just
>: slip them in while you're not looking... :)
>
>Hmm. Harks back to the colonial era: "I claim these brackets in the
>name of Perl." Hmm. I guess the "We came in peace for all mankind"
>approach only works when you're quite sure nobody else is gonna claim
>it for themselves any time soon, which is much truer of the Moon than
>of Unicode. We hope.
I expect that's true, though in the context of the perl 6 parser it's not a
huge deal--just because someone else claims it doesn't mean much, as it'll
be claimed in a different parser module. Seems reasonable to make some
claims for perl, though.
Dan
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