Rafael Garcia-Suarez: ... # Defining lexical aliases ... # 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