On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 07:27 +0100, Daniel Brockman wrote: > Yet you have the choice of where to put your braces, even > though the braces don't lend themselves to different tasks > depending on whether you put them on a new line or not.
You *don't* have the choice to use different types of braces, though -- at least not by default. > Is Perl 6 really in such a desperate need of new and more > powerful features that issues of convenience are irrelevant? I see the proposal to treat - and _ as identical in identifiers as a feature almost as useful as making identifiers case-insensitive. Heteronymity seems too dangerous to encourage by supporting as a default. -- c