Am I the only one thinking "Cute, but WHY???"... (Edit: I should note that I did ++ Zaxo, it's a cool experiment.)

It's interesting, and I guess it'll be cool to be able to say 

# this won't render right as a code block, so it's pre
my ($x,$sum);
Σ(\$x,1,100,sub{$sum+=$x;$sum});
But I'm afraid that venturing into multi-byte character sets for source code is pretty dangerous... I'd think the risks don't outweigh the benefits.

It is important to be able to represent them in strings and data, of course.

Oh well, the powers that be did decide that perl source could be utf-8, so it's not like I can retroactively change their minds. But the possible toolset incompatibilities outweigh the benefits, in my mind, of sub Σ, or even, in French, things like sub arrivée and sub départ...
--
Mike

In reply to Re: [5.8.0 Note] A Sub Named Sigma by RMGir
in thread [5.8.0 Note] A Sub Named Sigma by Zaxo

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