I'm going to YAPC

[Jonathan "Duke" Leto]

Howdy,

All of this trolling will be much more fun in person, with beverages.

I hope y'all are ready.

Duke

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Todd Rinaldo <toddr at cpanel.net> wrote:
>
> On May 30, 2013, at 10:58 PM, Chip Salzenberg <rev.chip at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.  :)
>
> I can't let it go. Reini, instead of p2, I recommend you look into this hot, new upcoming language, which may already meet your needs. It's called C. It's all the rage now that B is dead. :P
>
> Todd
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