"Jonathan Scott Duff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:31:23PM -0400, Joe Gottman wrote: > > And Perl 6 isn't? I use backticks quite a bit in Perl, and I don't see > > that changing if I upgrade to Perl 6. > > Me too, but I write my backticks like qx() :)
I was just thinking that it would be nice if qx was a :prefix operator with a bit of clever parsing, so you could write in lisp style: (qx rm -rf /usr/bin/perl*); And then, in the spirit of perl6's elimination of parentheses where possible: qx rm -rf usr/bin/* ; (i.e. it goes to the end of the current expression-scope). Perhaps a "qx<<"HERE";" form could be useful, too. If we could implement such a prefix:qx operator (as a macro?), then the qx form would be only one char (the space) more than the backtick form. Dave.
