Many thanks for the compliments. I am an accomplished writer, but programming magazines aren't what they used to be <sigh>.

I'm working on Perl 6 while I'm on sabbatical, and have been refactoring the documentation into a solid standard specification.

What more might I say about Perl 5 objects? I suppose I could be more explicit in summary, showing the typelessness and freedom compared with C++ etc.

The orthodox documentation has the "french quotes" like %h«hello $world». But every non-ASCII construct has an equivalent. I figured £ would be easier to type than ⍈. You're in China now, so maybe you can easily type 元? Seriously, I expect a lot of brainstorming over that. The important thing is to introduce syntax to correspond to the concepts — choosing a symbol not used for anything else let me not worry about messing up the existing grammar and be more succinct then discussing alternatives. It goes with the "shocking" part, I do think...

—John

In reply to Re^2: Perl 6 shocking revelations #1 by John M. Dlugosz
in thread Perl 6 shocking revelations #1 by John M. Dlugosz

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