Supercomma! (was Re: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos)

[Michael Lazzaro]

On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 11:58  AM, Larry Wall wrote:

You know, separate streams in a for loop are not going to be that
common in practic, so maybe we should look around a little harder for
a supercomma that isn't a semicolon.  Now *that* would be a big step
in reducing ambiguity...

Or more than one type of supercomma, e.g:

   for @x ¡̣ @y ¡̣ @z -> $x ¡̣ $y ¡̣ $z { ... }

to mean:
   for @x ; @y ; @z -> $x ; $y ; $z { ... }

- vs -

   for @x ¡× @y ¡× @z -> $x ¡× $y ¡× $z { ... }

to mean:

   for @x -> $x {
     for @y -> $y {
       for @z -> $z {
         ...
       }
     }
   }

;-)

MikeL