Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace

[Edward Peschko]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:30:37PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:38:50PM -0700, Brent Dax wrote:
> > IMHO, . can DWIM in most cases even if it's both object deref _and_
> > concat--without paying any attention to whitespace.
> 
> Please, no. Some of us have to *teach* this language.

Then I guess that either space sensitive '.' is the answer, or '_'. I personally
prefer the space sensitive '.' because it is compatible with perl5, and I think
people would have less difficulty with it even if it was doing double duty in 
the language. And its visually easy to spot the difference between the two
constructs.

But if it is going to be another character, I'd definitely go with '_' over '~'.
At least then we could say _= and =_, although that looks bizarre to me..

I think its really time to have a vote on this, I think that all that has been 
said about this issue has been said...

Ed