[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mr. Nobody) writes:
> I have to wonder how many people actually like this syntax, and how many only
> say they do because it's Damian Conway who proposed it. And map/grep aren't
> "specialized syntax", you could do the same thing with a sub with a prototype
> of (&block, *@list).

Well, I'll go record and say I think it's Bloody Silly. It's over-cutesy,
adding syntax for the sake of syntax, doesn't do anything for the readability
of code, and doesn't really actually gain very much anyway.

But even so I dare say it'll go in because Damian likes it.

-- 
King's Law of Clues :  Common sense is inversely proportional to the
academic intelligence of the person concerned.

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