Re: RFC 133 (v1) Alternate Syntax for variable names

[Michael Maraist]

>   my var; # declaring a scalar
>   my array[]; # declaring an array
>   my hash{}; # declaring a hash

Though the declarations seem fine, I assume that you propose this to be
optional at usage time, since variable interpolations such as
"xxx${var1}xxx${var2}xxx" really need the prefix.  One of the great
strengths of perl is in fast and simple string manipulations.  Currently,
it's unabiguous as to how here-document simpler strings get interpolated.
Compare that to Java's:
 "str" + var + "str"
 or python's:
 "xxx%sxxx" % var

-Michael