Excuse my quoting, this is getting difficult. :)
Damian wrote this in response to Steve's question:
> > Very probably like I described in Exegesis 2:
> >
> > @array[@indices]
> >
> > %hash[@keys]
>
To which Steve responded:
> Here you use square brackets after the hash name, but below
> you use curly braces. Which is it?
>
To which I would respond that it looks to me like Damian mis-typed when
he quoted from his own Exegesis with %hash[@keys]. Because according to
both Larry and Damian, in their respective articles on Perl6, hashes
will continue to be named using brace syntax. ie: %foo{$bar},
%foo{@bar}, and $foo{$bar} for the reference.
> A general question: I think in principle we could remove the
> @ from @foo[something] without loss of information -- the square
> braces tell us that foo is an array. Is this true?
> If so has any thought been given to making the @ and %
> optional in certain contexts?
Or is foo an array reference?
$foo[something]
Christopher
