Re: functions that deal with hash should be more libera

[Nathan Torkington]

John Porter writes:
> I suppose that's true.  But why would 
>       %( foo => 1, bar => 2 )
> be "working harder" than
>       %{{ foo => 1, bar => 2 }}
> ??? It's few keystrokes and would be a less tricky concept
> to remember.

It's a new syntax, not orthogonal to anything we already have.  The
number of people wanting to coopt %{ or %( or %[ is truly frightening.

I think the message is: Don't put time into the parser when your
effort could better be spent in the optimizer.

Nat