I'm going to YAPC

Chip Salzenberg rev.chip at gmail.com
Thu May 30 20:58:51 PDT 2013


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Darren Duncan <darren at darrenduncan.net>wrote:

> On 2013.05.30 8:03 PM, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Reini Urban <reini.urban at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>     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;
>>
>> A sigil-free mutation of Perl would be a good language, to be sure.
>>  Perhaps not
>> really Perl, but still good.  :)  But as I'm sure you'll agree, it's easy
>> to
>> mechanically translate between the two dialects, which renders it
>> fundamentally
>> uninteresting to VM hackers.  And as such I hope never to have to talk
>> about it
>> in Austin.
>>
>
> I think if you were going to make a Perl-like language that is sigil-free,
> where sigils aren't used to indicate that what it appears with is the name
> of some entity in contrast to a keyword or literal, I agree.  [...]


I'm not in Austin yet, so I'll let this go.  :)
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