Re: RFC: Highlander Variables

[Simon Cozens]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 04:32:40PM +0100, Andy Wardley wrote:
> This would permit the rationalisation and simplification of the syntax
> required to access individual elements or slices of arrays and hash arrays,
> while remaining backwardly compatible with Perl5 syntax.

This is the rationale? Sounds a bit of assault on Perl's flexibility for this
little gain. As Randal said, there's no teaching advantage in it.

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