Re: RFC 109 (v1) Less line noise - let's get rid of @%

[Dan Sugalski]

At 05:57 PM 8/15/00 -0400, John Porter wrote:
>Jon Ericson wrote:
> > Why not change @x so that it can represent other
> > types of arrays?  For instance:
> >
> >   my @x;      # standard Perl array
> >   my @y[2, 3];        # 2x3 matrix (syntax guess)
> >   my FIFO @z; # FIFO stack (another guess)
>
>This is ENTIRELY my point: the more things a '@' can represent,
>the LESS information it carries; and there will come a point --
>when perl6 is released, if not sooner -- when the symbol will
>be essentially content-free.  So get rid of it.  It's a waste.

If the symbol becomes content-free, perhaps the problem is with what made 
it useless, not with the symbol itself...

                                        Dan

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