David M Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 24 Apr 2001, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The switch from -> to . makes perfect sense from a C perspective if we're
>> turning objects into first-class entities rather than pointers; think
>> about a struct versus a pointer to a struct.
>>
>> -> makes you remember that things are pointers.
> What's wrong with using both? You could use -> if you're working with a
> reference to an object, and you could use . if you're working with the
> object itself.
It seems relatively unlikely in the course of normal Perl that you're
going to end up with very many references to objects.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
