Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I think what David wanted was an easy way
to reference other keys of an hash while creating one, ie:
How to do this, in a line:
%h = ( first = 10 );
$h{second} = $h{first} * 2;
Because, as I'm sure you know, this code (when run w/out strict):
Markus Peter writes:
use %record{
$\interest_earned += $\balance * $\rate_daily;
};
Guys, where in the sweet name of Jesus did this awful syntax
come from?
For a start,
%start{ }
is only analogous to a slice operation. It has no precedent in
Perl.
Normally what you'd
David L. Nicol writes:
okay but we still have the hiding issue, in case we want it to
What's the hiding issue? I must have missed that.
$one{two} is $one\two
$$one{two}{three} is $one\two\three
$$$one{two}{three}{four} is $one\two\three\four
Your left
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 12:17:18AM +, David L. Nicol wrote:
Nathan Torkington wrote:
The precedent of "if you're doing a hash
lookup, use {} around the key" is fairly well-ingrained in Perl.
I don't care how "ingrained" the concept of wrapping the
field names in curlies is, I still
--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
