As I try writing P6 programs I do find myself needing required named params, and I thought I'd like something like ++$named_req for myself as a shorthand for "+$named_req is required" or whatever is decided.
Now, larry often says (only partly jokingly) "go write your own grammar". But I do not know how I'd change/modify/append the grammar to accomodate that cosmetic change above. Needing to know "the entire P6 grammar" isn't mouth watering. I am sure this has been discussed before, so can somebody please point me to some place where I can start reading about this? "macros" does not seem to be an answer as I seem to think of them as defining syntax for new commands that you are writing. (In this case, I do not know where I would put the "is parsed" trait). I may be wrong and macros in some form are the answer. Either way, I'd appreciate any thoughts/answers/pointers on this. --Abhijit Abhijit A. Mahabal http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~amahabal/
