Re: is sigil user - extensible ? Was: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-16 Thread Damian Conway
Acadi asked: is it possible to extend the perl sigil behaviour . Yes. that is , one day somebody decides it needs ¢ as sigil for certain class of variables . will it be possible to do . ( without rewriting the whole perl ) Yes. Just inherit the standard Perl grammar, extend the Cvar rule

is sigil user - extensible ? Was: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-15 Thread fearcadi
Larry Wall writes: It would be really funny to use cent ¢, pound £, or yen ¥ as a sigil, though... C'mon, everybody's doing it! First one's free, kid... ;-) People who believe slippery slope arguments should never go skiing. just (re)reading *old* threads : is it

Re: is sigil user - extensible ? Was: UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ, demos

2002-11-15 Thread Austin Hastings
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: e.g. I can force all variables starting with 'A' to be constant . now 'A' is special sigil . ( can I ??? ) ( probably this is something perl should avoid somehow ) And by extension, you can force all variables starting with 'hwpstr' to be a certain