Paul Hodges wrote:
http://perl6.org/doc/design/syn/S02.html still says:
Intra-line comments will not be supported in standard Perl
This is wrong, since S02 also defines intra-line comments, under
Whitespace and Comments. It calls them 'embedded comments'. You
don't need a 'use' statement.
Author: larry
Date: Wed Jan 2 11:30:16 2008
New Revision: 14478
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
doc/trunk/design/syn/S06.pod
Log:
Rationalize migration strategy from Perl 5 to Perl 6 using transitional p5=
operator
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
I've been putting a fair amount of thought into this. Here's what
I've come up with:
Perl 6 has several instances where whitespace is required or forbidden
in order to better facilitate Do What I Mean programming: for
instance, by having the presence or absence of whitespace before curly
braces
Jonathan Lang wrote:
How about '~#', meaning something along the lines of string-like
comment? The idea is that the syntax that follows this would conform
closely to that of string literals (i.e., quotes). We might even
consider loosening the restrictions on delimiter characters, allowing
I was reading Synopsis 4 with regards to multi core programming. It
seems to be infused with a bias towards non-parallel models of
computation. Concurrently appears to be an add-on feature -- whereas we
should have a mindset that explicit sequential constraints are the
add-on feature.
Two
