Rafael Garcia-Suarez:
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# Defining lexical aliases
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# Brent Dax, voice from the Perl 6 lists, proposed to
# introduce the Perl 6
# binding operator "my $alias := $value" instead. (Oddly enough this
# particular syntax isn't currently rejected by Perl 5.)
Just a little correction: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes suggested it; I said
that it might not be a good idea because Perl 6's := has other semantics
that would be harder to emulate.
--Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
@roles=map {"Parrot $_"} qw(embedding regexen Configure)
"If you want to propagate an outrageously evil idea, your conclusion
must be brazenly clear, but your proof unintelligible."
--Ayn Rand, explaining how today's philosophies came to be