* Mr. Nobody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-17 19:55:41]:
> --- Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > @out <~ grep { ... } <~ map { ... } <~ @in; # (3)
> > @in ~> map { ... } ~> grep { ... } ~> @out; # (4)
> 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.
Just for statistical purposes I would like to say that I do like this syntax and
this has nothing to do with Damian. I would have liked it if it was proposed
by anyone else anyway.
> > 2) You might be able to combine L2R and R2L piping in one statement.
> > Maybe.
I think this is great. At least it caries the true Perlish philosophy of doing
things in an obfuscated way. However, although I like it because I am a Perl
programmer, these kind of things scare new people away because they think that
Perl is an awful language which is write-only. I thought this was going to
change with Perl6.
> > 3) How pretty you think the above is depends almost entirely on how the
> > tilde is rendered in your font.
> I have a font where ~ is in the center, and I still hate it.
I have a font where ~ is rendered above, and I still like it.
> > 4) Some people like the idea of having Unicode operators in perl6.
> > Some don't. There are issues with it. Larry hasn't come up with a
> > ruling yet. We should wait for his decision.
As long as there is a [alternative] way to input (and read) Perl scripts in
simple ascii, I'm happy. Should there be an approach that Java used to have --
where "\uxxxx" escape sequences are parsed first and then the code is parsed?
(I am not terribly familiar with unicode technologies in programming languages,
so you can think of me as an ordinary newbie at this point ;)
Petras Kudaras
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Just Another Lithuanian Perl Hacker
