>>>>> "PRM" == Patrick R Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PRM> After thinking on this a bit, I'm hoping we don't do this -- at least not PRM> initially. I'm not sure there's a lot of advantage of C< $1.1 > over PRM> C< $1[0] >, and one starts to wonder about things like $1.$j.2 and PRM> $1[$j].2 and the like. i would say that you can use .1 only when all the indexes are literals like $1.2.1. anything else must be a proper index expression on $1 like $1[$j][1]. mixing those would scare me more than anything and it isn't much of a hardship to use the full expression form when you need it. also in perl, indexing isn't used nearly as often as for loops, so if you did grab something that was in a array in some match value, you would more likely loop over it than index into it. so again, the hardship of the index syntax isn't a big deal as it should be rarely needed. just my $1.02. :) uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org
