Re^18: Ovid's take on the renaming of "Perl6" (updated)

One of the main selling points of Ruby are Domain Specific Languages.

Restricting Perl to have a code block prototype (&) only at first position is hindering many options for syntactic sugar.

Be it more expressive versions of 'map' and 'grep' or 'loop' constructs. Basically because you want to add a modifier between keyword and block, without needing to explicitly introduce ', sub' .

Your rant about the limits of Ruby may be legit, but had little or nothing to do with what I said or meant.

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Re^19: Ovid's take on the renaming of "Perl6" (updated) by Jenda (Abbot) on Sep 09, 2019 at 21:08 UTC
If you add too much sugar, you end up with diabetes. The resulting syntax would be too confusing. "Is that thing a block or a hash?" I was reacting to your "better code blocks" and your mention of Ruby. Ruby doesn't have better code blocks. It has a highly confusing, hard to extend, misdesigned, misbehaving nonsense. Jenda 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not a manual!	[reply]