James Mastros wrote:
> > A set of braces is a special op that evaluates into the list of words
> > contained, using whitespace as the delimeter. It is similar to qw()
> > from perl5, and can be thought of as roughly equivalent to:
> > C<< "STRING".split(' ') >>
> I thought it was named <<foo bar baz>> or «foo bar baz» or qw(). (That
> middle one should be U+00AB and U+00BB, \N{LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE
> QUOTATION MARK} and \N{RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK}.
> Additionaly, I'm fairly certian, the Unicode ops could be either
> direction. I think there was a reason for that, but I don't remember what.
I know there was/is a proposal that we use both <<op>> and >>op<< for
vector (hyper) operators, and that they would mean different things... I
don't remember it specifically being extended to qw., such that <<a b
c>> and >>a b c<< would be identical.
I would imagine if we allowed both <<a b c>> and >>a b c<< to mean qw,
the two constructs would be identical, yes?
(My original worry was that allowing both <<a b c>> and >>a b c<< would
wreak havoc on syntax-coloring editors, but they probably can be taught
to handle it.)
MikeL
