Juerd writes:
> It'd be fun to have a different spelling for comma (here I assume that
> leading comma is ignored and that because of the special new leading
> keyword, non-slurpy can come after slurpy), for example:
>
> multi eval ($code, "using" ?$lang) { eval($code, :lang($lang)) }
> eval 'printf("Hello!")' using "C";
>
> multi index ("of" $needle, "in" $haystack, +$offset) { index(...) }
> my $pos = index of "," in "Hello, world!";
>
> multi join ([EMAIL PROTECTED], "on" $separator) { ... }
> my $joined = join @fields on ":";
>
> The same thing can almost be done with pairs, but these words don't make
> good identifier names.
I believe this was an RFC at some point. And this probably can't be
done without hard-to-construct regexes, but we'll leave that
construction to the module author so it only need be done once. I don't
actually expect that it would be *that* hard to do.
Luke
