On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Smylers wrote: > > could reparse the result. XXX .repr is what Python calls it, I think. > > Is there a better name? > > Yes; I've no suggestions as to what it might be, but surely there's > _got_ to be a better name than C<.repr>.
.repr is fine for me. An alternative that springs to mind could be .dump > > XXX We could yet replace <$foo> with $foo.more or $foo.iter or > > $foo.shift or some such (but not $foo.next or $foo.readline), > > That sounds good to me -- C<< while (<$file>) >> is one of the > least-intuitive bits of syntax to get across to people learning Perl; Gawd, no! It's so deeply perlish... could hardly do without it! Of course the above mentioned alternatives would be ok too, but only *as alternatives*... Michele -- Have you noticed that people whose parents did not have children, also tend not to have children. - Robert J. Kolker in sci.math, "Re: Genetics and Math-Ability"
