Re: Idea for making @, %, $ optional

2005-06-04 Thread Millsa Erlas
Millsa Erlas wrote: I have thought of an interesting idea that may allow Perl 6 to make the $, @, and % optional on many uses of variables. This involves simply extending the function namespace to include all kinds of structures, and thus the function namespace does not require symbols, they

Re: Idea for making @, %, $ optional

2005-06-03 Thread James Mastros
Millsa Erlas wrote: I have thought of an interesting idea that may allow Perl 6 to make the $, @, and % optional on many uses of variables. This involves simply extending the function namespace to include all kinds of structures, and thus the function namespace does not require symbols, they

Re: Idea for making @, %, $ optional

2005-06-03 Thread Millsa Erlas
James Mastros wrote: Millsa Erlas wrote: I have thought of an interesting idea that may allow Perl 6 to make the $, @, and % optional on many uses of variables. This involves simply extending the function namespace to include all kinds of structures, and thus the function namespace does not

Re: Idea for making @, %, $ optional

2005-06-03 Thread Austin Hastings
--- James Mastros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Millsa Erlas wrote: I have thought of an interesting idea that may allow Perl 6 to make the $, @, and % optional on many uses of variables. This involves simply extending the function namespace to include all kinds of structures, and thus

Re: Idea for making @, %, $ optional

2005-06-03 Thread Luke Palmer
On 6/3/05, Millsa Erlas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this allow the grammer rules of the language to be changed so that this could be implemented? How does this work? Yes. In fact, one of the big goals of perl 6 is to allow people to mutate the grammar of the language. If you just want

Re: Idea for making @, %, $ optional

2005-06-03 Thread Millsa Erlas
Austin Hastings wrote: --- James Mastros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Millsa Erlas wrote: I have thought of an interesting idea that may allow Perl 6 to make the $, @, and % optional on many uses of variables. This involves simply extending the function namespace to include all kinds