On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 04:05:30AM +0100, Daniel Brockman wrote: > That is, hyphen and underscore are synonymous in identifiers, > but an initial hyphen is not taken to be part of the identifier. >
Why not make this feature generic and define equivalence classes for equivalent characters in an identifier? This would introduce a very interesting mathematical feature to Perl6. Something else comes here to my mind: Wildcard identifiers: foo*bar (12, "foo"); (maybe with a different syntax, i'm not sure yet). >From the matching functions/subroutines/whatever the one with a matching signature could be called. A warning or some exception should be thrown if multiple signatures match. Maybe these features could also be implemented via a syntax hook in the parser maybe: use wildcard_identifiers; or use equivalence_identifiers; There are no other languages i know where this is possible, but i would find it quite useful, and i know others that would like a feature like this. Wildcard identifiers would play in hand with the module versioning maybe too. Selecting _any_ version of a module, but i haven't paid much attention to the syntax/semantic of that. greetings, Robin Redeker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robin Redeker
