On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 09:56 AM, Larry Wall wrote:
> my Date $date { 'June 25, 2002' };
>
> Either way, this makes data declarations more like sub declarations
> in syntax, though the semantics of what you do with the final closure
> when are obviously different. That is, for ordinary data a bare {...}
> is equivalent to "is now", while for a subroutine definition it's more
> like "is on_demand".
I actually rather like that as a sort of compromise. Syntactic sugar,
good.
I'm assuming, however, that the difference in syntax between the two
different uses of {...} would be easily identifiable via the assignment
operator, viz:
my Date $date { 'June 25, 2002' };
vs.
my $sub = { ... };
Correct?
Also, this leads me to wonder, is a closure is actually a typed object?
my Closure $sub = { ... };
And if so, does it matter?
> Whatever. My coffee stream hasn't yet suppressed my stream of
> consciousness.
I think we're all the better for it! :-)
Regards,
David
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