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

>>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.