> > ... but in Perl 6, as in the
> > Template Toolkit, the '.' will be used as the method 
> calling operator 
> > and ' _ ' will be used for string concatenation.
> 
> But, alas, it is true no longer.  Perl 6 will now be using ~ 
> for this (see, e.g., 
> http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S03.html).  Which I 
> personally think is just bizarre, but then nobody asked me. 

Well, because _ is a valid subroutine/variable name char, it would
require surrounding whitespace, at least in certain contexts. I believe
that's what did it in. Nothing to do with readability/typability.


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