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On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:10:30 +0100, Abigail <abigail@xxxxxxx.xx> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 03:56:22PM +0200, Yossi Kreinin wrote:
> > Abigail wrote:
> > >
> > >>Well, I guess BitKeeper is right - whitespace matters in Makefiles,
> > >>Python scripts and ASCII art.
> > >
> > >
> > >And don't forget perl6. (HATE! HATE! HATE! perl6 is one language I won't
> > >code in - for exactly this reason).
> > >
> >
> > I'm not very knowledgable about Perl, but I thought Perl 6 had those
> > metaprogramming capabilities from another planet, and you could make it
> > look like whatever you wanted (including Perl 5), and this would solve all
> > syntactic problems forever, and I wanted to read about it just out of
> > curiosity. So I thought you could also tell it that whitespace didn't
> > matter.
> >
> > Did I get it all wrong?
>
> In Perl6:
>
> print sqrt(9) + 7; # Prints 10.
> print sqrt (9) + 7; # Prints 4.
I know something was going to change, but to make a language unusable?
Well, if above is true, perl6 has lost me too. Forever.
A function should in my vision *always* be separated from it's paren with a
space. Otherwise the layout stinks and it is unmaintainable. Layout is a hate
category of it's own, but to impose wrong layouts ... well maybe perl6 *is*
learning from python and cobol
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