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Re: Apo2: \Q ambiguity

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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
May 4, 2001 21:46
Subject:
Re: Apo2: \Q ambiguity
Message ID:
5.1.0.14.0.20010505004201.0221dd10@24.8.96.48
At 06:40 PM 5/4/2001 -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
>Dan Sugalski writes:
>: That's cool. I was just thinking it might not be a bad idea for us to
>: set some equivalencies up in advance. If not, that's fine too. (I'll just
>: slip them in while you're not looking... :)
>
>Hmm.  Harks back to the colonial era: "I claim these brackets in the
>name of Perl."  Hmm.  I guess the "We came in peace for all mankind"
>approach only works when you're quite sure nobody else is gonna claim
>it for themselves any time soon, which is much truer of the Moon than
>of Unicode.  We hope.

I expect that's true, though in the context of the perl 6 parser it's not a 
huge deal--just because someone else claims it doesn't mean much, as it'll 
be claimed in a different parser module. Seems reasonable to make some 
claims for perl, though.

					Dan

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