On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:06:13PM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote: : If only from a syntax-highlighting point of view, this is a horrible : proposal. Make it die.
This would be relatively straightforward for syntax highlighters, I think. But Perl 6 will throw other curves at highlighters that will be much more difficult to solve, such as the fact that any C<use> potentially changes the subsequent syntax. Even an operator declaration changes the subsequent syntax. Making things easy for syntax highlighters is not a primary design goal for Perl 6--in this Perl will remain the AntiLisp. If the proposal dies, it'll be on semantic and/or psychological grounds. (Not counting the psychological grounds of it being hard to get used to. :-) Larry