Re: Tying & Overloading

[Simon Cozens]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:48:35AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> :    @foo = @( a + b );   # element by element add of @a and @b
> I expect that's be written:
> 
>     @foo := @a + @b;

Two different assignment operators? I can understand the intent, but this kind
of difficult-to-remember special-casery is the sort of thing that *already*
gives Perl a bad press.

Think about the question "Does this vastly increase or vastly decrease the
program-breaking potential of a mistake made by a novice Perl 6 programmer?"
>From a trainer's point of view, having two operators which look very similar,
are used for the same thing in various different languages, and do *almost*
the same thing but not quite, is completely *asking* for confusion.

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and that just sucks.