<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Nov 16, 2008, at 9:25 AM, damien morton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/17 Robert Virding <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rvirding@gmail.com">rvirding@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <br>Syntax is another problem, maybe practically even more difficult, but in one respect actually not too difficult. The main point is that the syntax and the semantics must "fit together" and support each other. This is one reason why I am not too keen on using a C/Java like syntax, it was designed for completely different semantics.<br> <br>More thoughts later,</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Another correspondent pointed out that the scope of the changes in Perl 6 is provoking Shock and Awe is some of Perl community - the changes are so extensive that the language is barely recognisable.</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>*looks around*</div><div><br></div><div>Did someone say that? Because I don't think I said that...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-kevin</div></body></html>