On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:57:31AM +0200, Allison Randal wrote: > Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >> >> I'm not sure about this last comment -- I think I can imagine >> that other language implementations (including new ones we haven't >> thought of yet but suddenly becomes possible with Parrot) might want to >> make use of gather/take semantics if they're readily available -- >> especially because they can be very hard to otherwise >> implement when they're not readily available. And compile-time >> constants are pretty cheap. :-) > > Absolutely. But for that it shouldn't be called "CONTROL_TAKE", because > that's meaningless outside Perl 6. > [...] > The principle is that global things > should be language-agnostic, and not use terminology that's confusing to > all the other languages.
What's the language-agnostic term for this, then? Pm
