PROTOPROPOSAL FOR NEW BACKSLASH was Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "express"

[David L. Nicol]

Dave Storrs wrote:
 
>         The following words could also be overloaded for this purpose:
>                 map, use



I think I like

        use %record{
                

is a macro that expands to

        {my \%_ = \%record;


even better than the same thing without the key word.


        Although $_{fieldname} is too long.  If only
all the punctuation weren't taken already!  How about backslash,
after the type-qualifier?


        use %record{

                $\interest_earned += $\balance * $\rate_daily;
        };

Heavy OO could use \ the way C/Java/VB use . and only need one $ prefix.