On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:44:47AM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
> Regex aliases, threads, lexicals, junctions, and dwimmery make things a
> *lot* easier to program. This syntactic sugar you're proposing doesn't.
But it *does* make an oft-used construct easier to type. That adds up
over time and as the amount of code increases. Or do you dispute that
$hash{'key'} is oft-used or that %hash{'key'} will be oft-used?
> It saves you a few keystrokes at the cost of complicating the language.
The amount it complicates the language seems infinitesimally
small to me (compare it to all of the added complexity in perl6
so far). Disambiguation based on context works. Show me the
complications you see.
-Scott
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