First off, before I forget to mention it, nice job on Apoc2 Larry! You are
the man. I know alot of us on p6l can seem like harsh critics at times, but
it's only because we love Perl so much. ;-)
Anyways, in addition to the $file.next stuff, I'm curious about a few
clarifications on the new semantics of arrays and hashes. Overall it looks
outstanding. I'm interested in what happens with interactions:
$a = @b;
Does this:
1. Get the length (doesn't seem to make sense now)
2. Pull a reference to @b (like Perl5's "$a = \@b")
3. Get the first element of @b
Similarly, how about:
%c = @d;
Does this:
1. Create a hash w/ alternating keys/vals like Perl5
2. Do the equivalent of "%c = \@d" in Perl5
3. Or the mystery meat behind Door #3
Also, I like the *@b prototype slurping idea a lot, but I do worry about
potential confusion with the @*b special class notation. I'm wondering if
the latter can't be @::b?
-Nate
