Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

[Larry Wall]

Peter Scott writes:
: If the prefix-less form of filehandles was absent from Perl 6, I would be 
: far less enthusiastic about my RFC.  I agree; they're a kind of scalar.

In fact, they're a kind of object.

: (Just occurred to me that one could view the % prefix of hashes as denoting 
: a key-value pair by virtue of looking like two o's separated by a 
: divider.  Never seen this interpretation before, though.)

Sorry, beat you to it, barely.  Camel III, page 10:

    (If you look carefully at the % character, you can see the key
    and the value with a slash between them.  It may help to squint.)

Actually, that was one of the reasons I picked % in the first place.

Larry