On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 13:01, Jonathan E. Paton wrote:
> I'm I beating this point to death, or do I have to write
> the RPC:
>
> "Keep the {} and [] notation for hashes and arrays"
>
> or
>
> "Save our array!"
Let's boil this RFC down to one short phrase:
If {} goes away in Perl6, then everything you've heard about Perl6 being
"not really all that different from Perl5" is either a lie or a damned
lie. People keep saying "it's just Perl5, but instead of syntax X, you
now use syntax Y". Well, as both X and Y lists grow longer....
I know this is harsh, but really folks, you're pulling Perl apart
looking at a half-dozen good features and building a new language around
them. I don't fault you for this (it's a great way to come up with a new
language), but I'm beginning to get the feeling that going from Perl5 to
Perl6 is going to be almost the same level of effort as going from
Pascal to ANSI C!
Also, just wondering:
$_[_][EMAIL PROTECTED] _=_0_-_
does that work the way I expect it to?
