Austin Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> --- "Joseph F. Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If the final design stays the way it is now, there really won't be
>> a "lexer". Instead, a perl6 grammar parses the data, and builds up
>> a huge match-object as it, well, matches. This match object is then
>> munged into the optree.
>>
>
> With this in mind, I'll say it again:
>
> Let's support separable verbs.
>
> Here's how:
>
> # Note my arbitrary selection of _ as separation indicator. Feel free
> to replace this with something more appropriate:
>
> sub if ($test, &block)
> _ elsif ($test, &block) is optional is floating is multi
> _ elsunless ($test, &block) is optional is floating is multi
> _ else (&block) is optional is fixed
> {
> while (!$args[0].test) shift;
> &args[0].block();
> }
Mmm... Smalltalk style message specifiers here we come...
method Bool::ifTrue (&trueBlock) _ ifFalse (&falseBlock);
($a == $b).ifTrue { do_this() }
ifFalse { do_that() }
I really like this idea or something like it.
--
Piers
