James Mastros wrote:
Millsa Erlas wrote:
I have thought of an interesting idea that may allow Perl 6 to make the
$, @, and % optional on many uses of variables. This involves simply
extending the function namespace to include all kinds of structures, and
thus the function namespace does not require symbols, they are optional.
Also, a goal I have tried to follow here is to implement this feature
without affecting the existing usage grammar and rules of the Perl 6
language at all. This is a good goal i believe, my intention is just for
this to be an additional extension to Perl 6, not change its existing
grammar and parsing rules at all, just expand upon it. Perl 6 is a great
language and I like what has done so far. This is not an attempt to
change what has already been defined, but rather provide an additional
usage.
In that case, you should be looking into how to make it a pragmata,
rather then pushing the idea on perl6-language. It shouldn't be too
hard -- a matter of using the equivalent of perl5's UNIVERSAL::AUTOLOAD,
and the OUTER:: scope.
-=- James Mastros,
theorbtwo
Does this allow the grammer rules of the language to be changed so that
this could be implemented? How does this work?
Making this feature something that could be implemented with a pragma
would be a fine idea.
Furthermore the idea I have had to
