On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 09:46:59AM -0800, Dave Whipp wrote: : Larry Wall wrote: : : >And there aren't that many regexish languages anyway. So I think :syntax : >is relatively useless except for documentation, and in practice people : >will almost always omit it, which makes it even less useful, and pretty : >nearly kicks it over into the category of multiplied entities for me. : : Its surprising how many are out there.
We can certainly add a :syntax() modifier as easily as a :foolang modifier, if we decide at some point we really need one, or if PGE could make good use of it even if Perl 6 doesn't want it. Larry
