> for the latest spec changes regarding this item, see > http://perlcabal.org/svn/pugs/revision/?rev=27959. > > is everyone equally miserable now? ;) > ~jerry
Ha! :) I do indeed feel underwhelmed. I'll surely get over it but I may as well post why, even though Larry's presumably trying to stop the discussion. Sorry Larry. First, I had liked some of the ideas that had been posted in this thread. Quite a lot more than Larry's pick. Of course, I may well be missing complications he can see. Second, I had been mulling backtick, but was thinking on more radical lines than the one Larry's gone for. Again, perhaps he's got more up his sleeve that builds on what he's just committed. For a quick backgrounder, Larry had talked of reserving backtick for use as a user defined operator [1], Mark had suggested its use as a (tightly bound) comment [2], and James et al had suggested using it to declare units [3]. I've long been in Mark's camp about a lightweight and attractive docstring syntax being likely to be helpful for encouraging habits that would likely contribute to improved long term maintainability of code with comments, and was mulling that. -- love, raiph [1] http://markmail.org/message/zvn2hul6irggtrde [2] http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl6.language/msg/7d10c6bc5d66288e?hl=en [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language@perl.org/msg20819.html -- love, raiph
