>Perl supplies an operator for line input - angle brackets. This is no
>analogous operator for output. I propose "inverse angle brackets":
How about quotes? A quoted lhs expression could mean print. A quoted lhs
expression preceded by a file handle could mean print to filehandle.
Tom Christiansen's complaint seems irrelevant to me because a print
statement is already ugly in that visually interminable way.
"expr";
could be the special case of the more general
print//;
print[];
print();
parallel to the m//; and other such constructions.
Hm, maybe then I'd suggest shortening 'print' to 'o' for output:
o//;
...etc...
As a corollary maybe I'd suggest similarily regularizing input:
i//;
i[];
i();
with the traditional special case of:
<>;
I know, parallel construction for not really parallel item.
"i" and "o"!
Hm, I guess this may run afoul of the qq() and q() syntax, or at least
gets kind of mushed up with them. Well, what the heck, if they are
on the lhs...?
The only losers would folks who have used quotation marks of various
kinds as multi-line comment delims. (...me) The other only losers
would be those who have stuck evaluatable exprs inside lhs quoted
stuff to be exec'd for their side effects, yuck.
The save keystrokes at any cost people should love it (though I am
always puzzled why they don't use editor macros then).
The hate context people will hate it. Why such a short timeline on these
discussion groups? It's summer, yall.
--
-ken rich "Strong typing is for people
with weak memories."
--Compucius [EMAIL PROTECTED]
