On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:10:54AM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> > Snatch two syntax constructs away from the jaws of illegal syntax and
> > an unfortunate syntax, and make them useful weapons of the Perl
> > arsenal. The constructs are:
> >
> > $ref->[[LIST]]
> > $ref->{{LIST}}
> >
> > The proposed respective meanings:
> >
> > $ref->[$elem[0]]->[$elem[1]}->[...]->[$elem[-1]]
> > $ref->{$elem[0]}->{$elem[1]}->{...}->{$elem[-1]}
>
> By saying $hashref->{[LIST]} instead of $hashref->{{LIST}},
> the only thing you would change is the semantics of the expression,
Huh? Unless I missed something I didn't propose using $hashref->{[]}
anywhere... I used $ref->{{LIST}} and $ref->[[LIST]].
> not the [il]legality.
->{{ *is* illegal now.
> --
> John Porter
>
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