At 10:34 AM 4/7/02 +1000, Damian Conway wrote:
> > It's very cool--but why is it $key =~ %hash but $value =~ @array rather
> > than one way or the other?
>
>Because it's *both* ways. Perl 6's C<=~> operator is reversible.
>
>So you can write:
>
> $key =~ %hash
>
>or:
>
> %hash =~ $key
>
>and:
>
> $value =~ @array
>
>or:
>
> @array =~ $value
>
>depending on how the muse takes you.
Why give up the chance to let things that look different behave differently?
What do
@left =~ @right
%left =~ %right
do? One can imagine useful default interpretations that are not commutative.
--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
