Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying comma) with =>

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:18:04AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> Nathan Torkington wrote:
> > 
> > Perl makes easy things easy.  Hashes are bloody useful, as the last
> > decade of Perl has borne out.  They deserve syntactic support because
> > they're used a lot and are worthy of a shorthand.
> 
>       my @aa :assoc;
> 
>       $aa['foo'] = 'bar';
> 
> Is no one getting my point?

I get your point but I'm not over the momentum of using %hash enough
to agree with you  :-)

To my mind, this would be the most radical language change if it were
adopted.  There's just too much % history and those attributes become
*very* important rather quickly.  But, if that's where we're headed
anyway, Perl 6 is a good time to make that decision.

still having reservations,

-Scott
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