I have never used Perl5's formats, except for once to see what they did. So, frankly, moving format to Perl6::Form is something I applaud.

The most interesting part of Ex7, imho, was a little gem buried about a third of the way down the page. Options look like really neat syntactic sugar.

The fact that I can write some_option => 1, as :some_option makes me very happy. Turning something on or off is, often, over half the parameters passed to some function or constructor.

Now, I'm not so certain about the usefulness of :some_option[1, 2, 3] or the almost impenetrable :some_option«Some Text» (How on earth are you supposed to make those characters in vi, anyways?!? When was this decided, and by who?) I know I'll like them after the first few months, but I'm just not seeing it right now ...

Now, the formatting stuff, while the actual topic wasn't interesting to me, did further illustrate some of the very neat things we'll be allowed to do. By treating Perl6 as Lisp-ish as possible, the vistas that are opening seem endless. (And, I thought Perl5 had endless vistas ...)

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In reply to Thoughts on Exegesis 7 by dragonchild

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