Right, but that's using it as an identifier that returns a constant. In the parsing phase, it goes through "we have a word, what does it mean?" We can't define that as part of the language without breaking existing code, or going through a version-guard like with the new keywords in the builtin:: namespace. The infinity character is not a word character and can't be used as the name of a sub or variable or anything. (other than as the delimiter of a qq∞...∞, but my proposal doesn't break that) It also isn't stealing a useful character from someone's language. | [reply] |
