Why do you persist in talking for Larry Wall? I thought the point of a discussion was not to blindly tow the line, but to engage in a dialogue? Tell me why you would rather use dots for methods and underscores for concatenation. What benefit will you derive from it? How will it beneficially improve your code?

If someone coming from another language cannot put in the 30s it takes to read that dots are for concatenation and arrows for method calls, is there really any point in tailoring the language to their needs? And where do you get this idea that perl is so difficult? I haven't met anyone who's found it hard. In fact, the only people I've heard complaining are people with their own agenda (i.e., this is why the programming language I know so well is better than perl).

matt

In reply to Re: Re (9): Perl6 headaches? by mattg
in thread Perl6 headaches? by mattg

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