--On 18.08.2000 14:36 Uhr -0700 David L. Nicol wrote:
> How about backslash, after the type-qualifier?
>
> use %record{
>
> $\interest_earned += $\balance * $\rate_daily;
> };
I don't really like having backslashes in front of ordinary characters
anywhere except when I mean them :-) (\n, \t etc.)
In most cases where you'd want a with-type construct you know exactly which
keys there'll be, so maybe simply adding the keys as lexical variables to
the block would work:
my $interest_earned=0;
use %record {
$interest_earned+=$balance*$rate_daily;
};
Yes, this _might_ interfere with already existing variables but I so far
did not encounter lots of cases where I'd want to use a with block with
hashes where I'm not sure which keys it might contain...
(sorry if this was brought up already - I'm new to the lists and tried
scanning perl-language but gave up after some time... )
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