perl6

why doesn't this work:

→ my &a = -> $x { $x * 2 }
_block518

→ for 1..5 &a
Missing block at line 2, near ""

or this:
map &say, 1..5

These on the other hand do work:

→ map &a, 1..4
2 4 6 8


→ for 1..5 -> $x { $x * 2 }
2 4 6 8 10

terrible!

Haskell somehow does without your extravagant non-ASCII character sets.

actually, → is just the prompt. I used try.rakudo.org.

Not implemented yet?

If you want to call a _block, you need to use parens. It's the law.

for needs to see code in {} unless it's used as a statement modifier.

You're running afoul of both issues with the last item. (map has an adverbial form that is pretty cool--no need to delimit a block--but I don't remember how to use it.)

>>4
Oh yeah. So does C. And assembly. You feel better now?

>>8
perl6 does both with and without. I thought that was a nice touch.

>>4,8,9
FIOC3000000 is fully Unicode-compliant and Y2K compliant.

>>10
iirc even perl4 was y2k compliant.

but I meant that perl6 has a lot of things like "french" (i.e. greek) quotes which can be typed with ascii equivalents. it's nice to be able to use different symbols for certain things. it improves readability... and golf.

it's still a long ways off from writing source files in latex, but I'll take what I can get.

>>11
Then you'll get what you deserve.

>>12
progress? or do you think non-ascii is a plague of doom?

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