Thomas Wittek skribis 2007-05-14 22:31 (+0200): > $.but! (*adding$ %*characters _+that^# &$might) @#not_ !#be() > !&necessary_ *#$doesn't! *(make) [EMAIL PROTECTED] =_easier
Those characters are meaningless. The many symbols in Perl 6 have very distinct meanings, which makes them very powerful tools! > Oh, I thought Perl was a programming language. My fault. > Apples and oranges. There is a reason that C programmers don't throw away their source code after compiling it. While in some companies, writing software is indeed a unidirectional process, most companies that wish to survive have to maintain what they wrote, and then you also have to read it. Programming languages and spoken languages are both read by human beings, so they should still be easily parsed by these creatures. > Most modern scripting languages don't need the semicolons. I think > there's no plausible reason for them. They typically have a line continuation character instead of a semicolon, though. However, like the previous sentence, and this one too, actually, sometimes there is a line break in between. Again, written language can be a nice example, because if we had line \ continuation characters in here, it would suddenly look a lot \ different. Did you, while reading this, pause, just before "different"? -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
