Alexey Trofimenko skribis 2004-11-30 9:09 (+0300):
> delimiters should have corresponding closing character, so it should be
> something like
Please, stop seeing ` as a circumfix operator in this context. What you
do is like saying that after . you expect a capital letter. It's a
programming language, and the only definition useful is the language
itself, disregarding other languages, like Perl 5 and English.
In current Perl, :: is also known as '. And that's not a quoting
character in that context. In an early Apocalypse, Larry said not to
make the same "mistake" again because it would be hard to syntax-colour.
But that doesn't quite count, as matching for editors will have to be
rewritten anyway to support things like "$foo{"bar"}".
> %hash`foo``bar`{$foo}[0]{$bar}=0
> or it would be *much* worse for parser than <>.
Yes, that is indeed awful syntax. But fortunately, my proposal wasn't to
use `` as a postcircumfix operator.
> %hash"key""anotherkey"[1]=0
> %hash'key''anotherkey'[1]=0
> :key"value"
> :key'value'
This is just making parens/curlies optional for more operators than
<<>>.
> $var.<key1><key2>[1].<key3> # yikes, but still better than <<>><<>>
Still hard to type. Simply put, repeated circumfix operators suck,
regardless of whether they are <>, <<>>, "", '', [], {}.
Juerd
