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This is a request for a new syntactic feature for perl6, a keyword named
'unlisp' or 'unbrace'.
This new keyword would act almost exactly like a '{', with the difference that
when a matching '}' is found (or the end of file is reached), an extra '}' is
inserted. If more than one 'unlisp' keywords occur in a given scope, then the
end of scope acts as if there were a matching number of '}''s present.
This keyword would serve a similar purpose to 'unit', but would be much more
generic.
One way that this could be used, where 'unit' would not work, would be
something like:
unit package Foo;
my package EXPORT::DEFAULT unlisp;
our sub bar {...}; # gets exported.
my sub baz {...}; # doesn't get exported.
At present, 'unit' doesn't combine with 'my'.
It would be even cooler if 'unlisp', instead of acting like a '{' itself, were
required to be placed at the beginning of a statement, and transformed the next
appearing ';' into a '{' ... this would make it more like the current 'unit'
keyword, but this might be harder to parse.
