[e-lang] Proposed grammar simplifications

[Chip Morningstar]

>Without real examples (and I mean substantial chunks of code), 
>motivating any syntax is hard.  My expectation is that once we compare 
>interesting chunks of code written with no syntax enhancements, "verb=", 
>and a TBD syntax for expressing modified collections, the latter will 
>win, and the no-syntax style will be generally better than the verb= 
>style.  I'm happy to wait for such an example before spending too much 
>time on this :-)

Just to put in my 2 cents, I think the "verb=" syntax should just die.
It's ugly, it's confusing, and it adds to the language's whole aura of
weirdness without giving us much payoff in return for the trouble.  I
don't think we particularly need to replace it with any other special
syntactic support.

Chip