Damian Conway wrote: > > But... earlier messages from > > Larry suggested that the hyper-operator symbol would actually be an adverb > > (back then ':' was being proposed, IIRC), which sounded even more > > exciting... Is this still the plan, with more to come in later apocolypses > > about other adverbs (a table adverb?, conjunctions?), or has the whole > > adverb thing been scrapped? > > No. They're going to be very central to Perl 6. > Exegesis 3 will talk about adverbs in much more depth tomorrow. > Brilliant! I'm leaving my weekend free to read this in depth--this should be a fantastic addition!
PS: I'm getting excited about the announcement of _sample_ code for a language _design_... That's kinda 'meta-vaporware' isn't it? Where did things go so wrong... ;-)