"J. David Blackstone" wrote:
>
> > =head1 TITLE
> >
> > Less line noise - let's get rid of @%
>
> I understand that with the pervasiveness of object-orientation we
> are now more than ever seeing objects that behave like arrays and
> hashes and that it seems strange to see these listlike or hashlike
> objects represented as scalars. However, this is what the tie
> interface was designed for. If your object works like an array or a
> hash, by all means, provide the ability to tie it to an array or a
> hash.
The tie(0 interface is not very useful for multidim arrays, you have
to say
$x[42][44][49]
and do multiple levels of tieing whereas one just desires to say
$x[42,44,49]
> Having once lived in darkness before the marvels of OO enlightened
> me (meaning I used to just think object-oriented was a useless
> buzzword), I am still very sympathetic towards allowing people to come
> to Perl without any requirement that they learn OO. While this
> proposal certainly does not require OO, it seems to be assuming the
> universal use of it.
I like that too.
> I find the standard prefix symbols so intuitive I find it hard to
> articulate the reasons why I balk at giving them up. It's like
> explaining breathing or the ability to distinguish colors.
>
> I strongly disagree with the assertion that the Perl type prefixes
> are line noise. I think that phrase is very emotionally charged but
> carries little objective fact, and I think you would do better to come
> up with a different title.
Just my humour. You should have seen the draft. Don't get too emotional
- I don't expect to win.
> I noticed that the examples you cited in a later example about
> "cluttered" code all seemed to include references. May I suggest that
> perhaps you would be happy if there were just a cleaner syntax for
> dealing with references?
Perhaps.
Karl
