On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 08:40:07AM -0700, William Michels via perl6-users wrote:
> > \
> {}
> > \\
> {}
> > \\\
> {}
> Curiously, I seem to create an object in my REPL environment when I enter
> either a single-, double-, or triple-backslash. ...
Your backslash destroys the newline so the input is non-existent. The
empty hash seems an implementation artifact; a place to capture
the type and value of the code. Perhaps issuing a prompt as if a bare newline
was typed would be better.
Witness:
> my $x = 1 + 3 \
{}
> my $x = ( 1 + 3 \ )
4
> \ # comment
Nil
> ;
Nil
Rob
