On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Larry Wall wrote:
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 11:59:21AM -0600, Rod Adams wrote: : Seeing the « in the context of a here-doc made me think "can you do a : »<< here-doc?"
Nope, you can only hyper operators, not terms.
Incidentally, just like mathematically (albeit slightly loosely) an element of a set can be thought of as a function from any singleton, would it be possible for Perl 6 to provide a fast (under the syntactical point of view) way to promote a term to a function returning it?
Michele -- Not really. It was an insider joke. If you need to ask, you won't get the answer. I never said I was a nice guy. - David Kastrup in comp.text.tex, "Re: \slash and /"