Re: ... as a term

[Damian Conway]

   > Larry Wall writes:
   > > I'd entertain a proposal that ... be made a valid term that happens
   > > to do nothing, so that you can run your examples through perl -c for
   > > syntax checks.  Or better, make it an official "stub" for rapid
   > > prototyping, with some way of getting a warning whenever you execute
   > > such a stub.
   > 
   > This is the coolest suggestion made so far for perl6.  I love it.

And it's backwards compatible with a huge volume of "handwaving" code ;-)


   > Runtime behaviour of '...' is to warn "unimplemented behaviour".  With
   > use strict 'development', it dies "unimplemented behaviour" at
   > compile-time.

I take it the existing C<...> operator would be unaffected?

Damian