Whitespace is significant in many places. Even in some of the corners
of Perl 5. Perl 6 has a different set of rules, and it will take some
getting used to, but the rules are designed to let you do things as
naturally as possible. This, for instance, works fine:
my @values =
# (1,2,3) # older values, don't use
(4,5,6);
If I were suddenly granted the magical ability to impose my will upon
the design of Perl 6 and change anything I wanted, the multi-line
comments leading-whitespace exception would not make the top 5.
<asnide>What's with the sudden influx of people swooping in at the
last minute and attacking design decisions that were made, with much
angst and public debate, over the span of months and years? It's not
like @Larry are doing things based on whim; if they were, Perl6 would
have been done 2+ years ago.</asnide>
