On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 02:02:22 -0700, ben-goldb...@hotmail.com wrote:
> 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.
I think we have an Acme:: section on modules.perl6.org...
