Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-11-28 Thread Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 10:28:28 -0800, Larry Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 02:10:06PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: : I know everone has their reflexes tuned to type qw currently, but : how many of you Gentle Readers would feel blighted if we turned it : into q:w instead? Of

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-11-28 Thread Matthew Walton
James Mastros wrote: Larry Wall wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 07:32:58AM +0300, Alexey Trofimenko wrote: : ah, I forget, how could I do qx'echo $VAR' in Perl6? something like : qx:noparse 'echo $VAR' ? I think we need two more adverbs that add the special features of qx and qw, so that you

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-11-28 Thread John Macdonald
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 08:21:06PM +0100, Juerd wrote: James Mastros skribis 2004-11-27 11:36 (+0100): Much more clear, saves ` for other things I like the idea. But as a earlier thread showed, people find backticks ugly. Strangely enough, only when used for something other than readpipe.

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-11-28 Thread John Macdonald
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 12:24:08PM -0500, John Macdonald wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 08:21:06PM +0100, Juerd wrote: James Mastros skribis 2004-11-27 11:36 (+0100): Much more clear, saves ` for other things I like the idea. But as a earlier thread showed, people find backticks ugly.

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets

2004-11-28 Thread Juerd
John Macdonald skribis 2004-11-28 12:24 (-0500): Doesn't that cause ambiguity between: %hash{'foo'}{'bar'}{$foo}[0]{$bar} and %hash{'foo'}{'bar'}{$foo}{0}{$bar} ^ ^ hash instead of subscript Not really. $hashref[] can't be used and $arrayref{}

Re: Angle quotes and pointy brackets and heredocs

2004-11-28 Thread Rod Adams
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 07:32:58AM +0300, Alexey Trofimenko wrote: I notice that in Perl6 thoose funny « and » could be much more common than other paired brackets. And some people likes how they look, but nobody likes fact that there's no (and won't!) be a consistent way to type them in