Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.
If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.
Odd that we think definitions are definitive.
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.
One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.
The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.