>>Actually I can even imagine allowing almost all chars >>in the middle of identifiers.
Is this a trend we should extrapolate into the lifetime scope of the Perl 6 language? How far are we in this process, given Unicode guillemets for hyper ops? Kindly, Michael -----Original Message----- From: TSa (Thomas Sandlaß) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Montag, 11. August 2008 19:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Allowing '-' in identifiers: what's the motivation? On Monday, 11. August 2008 05:35:03 John M. Dlugosz wrote: > E.g. see <http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=703265> : > > sub bar { > return 100; > } > sub foo { 50;} > sub foo-bar { > return rand(50); > } > if (foo - bar != foo-bar) { > print "Haha!\n"; > } Actually I can even imagine allowing almost all chars in the middle of identifiers. The price is that *all* infix operators need spaces. This seems to be the trend right now. See e.g. the disambiguation of meta reduce and array constructors or adverbs versus nouns in the call syntax. So, how simple would a tokenizer become when whitespace separates almost all tokens? Noteable exceptions would be the pre- and postfix operators. Regards, TSa. -- "The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity" -- C.A.R. Hoare "Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it." -- A.J. Perlis 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... = -1/12 -- Srinivasa Ramanujan
