Re: r14574 - doc/trunk/design/syn

2008-08-13 Thread Ron
Thanks, guys. I was about to point out the difficulties for editors to get their syntax highlighting and auto-indenting right, but then I remembered that programming languages are (or should be) designed for the convenience of people and not to make the tasks easier for tools working on them. Reg

RE: Allowing '-' in identifiers: what's the motivation?

2008-08-13 Thread Peter Scott
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:03:03 +0200, Michael Mangelsdorf wrote: > I also tried to say that as special characters (not 7-bit ASCII) > like for hyper ops have already been admitted, the question of just how > far ($foo&bar) this admission should (be allowed to) is just around > the corner. Completely

Re: Allowing '-' in identifiers: what's the motivation?

2008-08-13 Thread Larry Wall
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:34:03AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote: : >I'm still somewhat ambivalent about this, myself. My previous : >experience with hyphens in identifiers is chiefly in languages that : >don't generally have algebraic expressions, e.g. LISP, XML, so it will : >take some getting u

metamethod contradictions in S12

2008-08-13 Thread John M. Dlugosz
Around line 477, it explains that our $count; method ^count { return $count } Such a I is always delegated to the C object just as methods like C<.does> are, so it's possible to call this as C or C<$dog.count>. However, around line 1983 it