I'm going to YAPC

[Reini Urban]

On May 30, 2013, at 8:42 PM, Chip Salzenberg <rev.chip at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll be at YAPC 2013.  Reports of my staying home were greatly exaggerated.  (By me, but don't let that confuse you.)
> 
> I'm hoping for a design-a-thon aspect to the hackathon time.  *Not* language design, mind.  High-level bikeshedding about sigils and regexes must be left behind, or at least left for later.  The various reimplementation projects in play aren't tied to those things.  The questions at hand lay in *how* to implement things, with no handwaving allowed, and looking at the consequences of those decisions.  I'm thinking whiteboards, coffee, and determination.  With those, all kinds of neat things might happen ... and they probably will.
> 
> I suppose I'll attend a talk or too as well, as long as I'm there.  :)
> 

What?
And I seriously thought of proposing making the scalar $ sigil optional. 
It looks bad and is only needed within strings. functions are scalars also, 
so treat them as such.
Bleach the beast. ruby had a point.

if (b) { a = 12 }
elsif (b) { a = 14 }
else { a = sub{ 1 } }
print a;