[Templates] Converting from old template language which allows nested tags into TT template

[Josh Rosenbaum]

Buddy Burden wrote:
> Josh,
> 
>> ... but in Perl 6, as in the Template Toolkit, the '.' will be used as 
>> the method calling operator and ' _ ' will be used for string 
>> concatenation.
> 
> But, alas, it is true no longer.  Perl 6 will now be using ~ for this 
> (see, e.g., http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S03.html).  Which I 
> personally think is just bizarre, but then nobody asked me. :)  I rather 
> liked _ (well, actually I was one of those weird people who didn't see 
> any problem with just leaving it as ., but that was never really an 
> option).

Hmm, I was going to complain at first, since doing this requires some shift key action, but then realized that '_' does too. Actually, '~' seems to be easier to type for me too. I think it's probably an overall good change over "_".

Thanks for the Perl 6 update.

-- Josh