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On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:45:51 -0800, Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> wrote:
> ...
> Hmm, I would say that "" is short for qq//, not qq"". Quote characters
> lose their identity when used with generalized quotes. (I realize this
> is not always true with Perl 5, but that can be construed as a mistake.)
> So «» is not really short for qw«» unless you take the delimiters of the
> latter construct as simple characters without any «» baggage, including
> the need to have a <<>> workaround. So I'd rather say «» is short for
> qw//.
> ...
ah, I forget, how could I do qx'echo $VAR' in Perl6? something like
qx:noparse 'echo $VAR' ?
(Note: I like thoose adverbs.. I could imagine that in Perl6 if you want
to have something done in some_other_way, you just should insert
:some_other_way adverb, and that is! perl will DWIM happily :)
> ...
> This approach doesn't help the person who can't even *display* «», but
> that problem will be solved before the input problem is. For instance,
> PerlMonks has no problem displaying «», but I haven't a clue how to type
> it into my browser yet.
> ...
I notice that in Perl6 thoose funny « and » could be much more common than
other paired brackets. And some people likes how they look, but nobody
likes fact that there's no (and won't!) be a consistent way to type them
in different applications, wether it's hard or easy.
But to swap «» with [] or {} could be real shock for major part of people..
We also have another ascii pair, < and > . maybe they could be better than
« and » ?:) i'm not that farseeing, but isn't problem of distinguishing <
as a bracket and < as an comparison operator no harder than distinguishing
<< as bracket and as part of heredoc?..
or maybe even we could see consistant to go after +<< +>> and alike, and
make old < and > written as +< and +> (and then lt and gt suddenly could
become ~< and ~> :)
But I certain, Larry already weighted exact that solution years ago..
P.S. If you have an urgent need to throw spoiled eggs at me, consider all
above as very late or very early fools day joke.. or you could try, but
i've never heard about ballistic transcontinental eggs.