PROTOPROPOSAL FOR NEW BACKSLASH was Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "express"

[email protected] ("David L. Nicol")
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.objects
Organization University of Missouri - Kansas City supercomputing infrastructure
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dave Storrs wrote:
 
>         The following words could also be overloaded for this purpose:
>                 map, use



I think I like

	use %record{
		

is a macro that expands to

	{my \%_ = \%record;


even better than the same thing without the key word.


	Although $_{fieldname} is too long.  If only
all the punctuation weren't taken already!  How about backslash,
after the type-qualifier?


	use %record{

		$\interest_earned += $\balance * $\rate_daily;
	};

Heavy OO could use \ the way C/Java/VB use . and only need one $ prefix.
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