Damian Conway:
# > # solitary underscore for that. So, instead of:
# > # $a . $b . $c you'll say:
# > # $a _ $b _ $c The only downside to that is the
# space between a
# > # variable name and the
# > # operator is required. This is to be construed as a feature.
# >
# > Ouch. Although I don't wish to reignite the
# Concatenation Wars, I think
# > this is just too...too.../ugh/ to be put in.
# >
# > For now, I'll leave ~ as concatenation in babyperl, just
# because I don't
# > think this will last too long. 0.02, which should be
# ready Real Soon
# > Now, will use ~.
#
# Then it will be Wrong. This decision is pretty much set in stone.
# As I say in Exegesis 3: Think of it as the dot operator under extreme
# acceleration.
Set in stone, huh? Hmm. It may affect the parsing, but I'm not sure.
Perhaps we can Arbitrarily Declare that an underscore isn't allowed as
the last character of a symbol. That way, you can still do $foo_$bar
without worrying about whitespace.
BTW, did you guys look at the possibility of overloading hyper? $foo ^
$bar ought not to occur anywhere; nor should @foo ^^ @bar. And I didn't
see anything about you being able to hyper =, so ^= ought to be alright
too.
# > <half-joking>With the many different opinions on this,
# maybe we should
# > just have three or four different concat
# operators...</half-joking>
#
# With user-definable operators you can use any Unicode
# sequence as a string:
#
# my sub operator:cc is prec(\&operator:_($$)) ($x, $y)
# { $x _ $y }
# my sub operator:cat is prec(\&operator:_($$)) ($x, $y)
# { $x _ $y }
# my sub operator:\N{CIRCLED PLUS}
# is prec(\&operator:_($$)) ($x, $y)
# { $x _ $y }
#
# etc.
Of course. OTOH, people will scratch their heads when they come upon
$foo § $bar or whatever.
On a separate note, how will '$foo??Bar::baz::frob' parse?
Since I've been complaining a lot, I'll now say a bunch of the things I
do like:
^
//
:=
=>
~~ (in concept, at least)
*
:
??::
$user_operator
--Brent Dax
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Configure pumpking for Perl 6
They *will* pay for what they've done.
