concerns to:
> "The longest-token rule needs to be mentioned in S03, and explained in a
> future perlop.pod."
For sure, stating it clearly and unambiguously will probably help those new
to programming, and maybe help those who want to extend perl 6 by defining
new grammer rule
be nearly as much of an
optimization for a virtual machine, but an aggressively optimizing compiler
would make constructs like the following just that extra bit faster:
if ( foo < bar ) baz++;
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ther than the dollar character, "$". Well,
sometimes they don't, and it's usually down to assuming US English is used
in all English locales.
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times called
propotype-based instead). Self, the archetypical delegation-based langugage,
permits objects being used as part of an inheritance tree to be modified at
runtime.
I guess this matters little as far as the internals go, but it would be a
shame to cut out a language as classic as Self, especially a
