[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Wall) writes:
> : Distinguishing them sounds scary, much scarier than having C<$a _ 1>
> : being different from C<$a_1>.
>
> But we already have exactly the same distinction with
>
> $foo{ $bar }
> $foo { $bar }
>
> not to mention
>
> $a ?? $foo::bar
> $a ?? $foo :: bar
And we had none of these distinctions in Perl 5. I hope this scares you
as much as it scares me.
To the innocent bystanders, I hope you're not buying any of this crap
about Perl 6 being more "regular" or removing the "inconsistencies" of
Perl 5. It simply isn't true.
--
The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what
you want.
-- D. Cohen
