On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:38:07PM +0100, Jonathan E. Paton wrote:
>>> So lining up of code like this...
>>> $x {a} {b} = 1;
>>> $xxx{aaa}{bbb} = 2;
>>> print $x {a} {b}, "\n";
>>> print $xxx{aaa}{bbb}, "\n";
>>> ....will no longer work in Perl 6? That's not going to be much fun.
>> You'll just have to do it this way:
>> $x{a }{b } = 1;
>> $xxx{aaa}{bbb} = 2;
>> print $x{a }{b }, "\n";
>> print $xxx{aaa}{bbb}, "\n";
>> Which is, I must admit, not as Fun as the Perl 5 way.
> Not to mention extremely error prone. "a " ne "a".
True, but since {} doesn't auto-quotify (or will it in Perl 6?),
$x{a}{b} should be equivalent to $x{a }{b }.
If you need quote marks, there's still:
$x{"a" }{"b" } = 1;
$xxx{"aaa"}{"bbb"} = 2;
print $x{"a" }{"b" }, "\n";
print $xxx{"aaa"}{"bbb"}, "\n";
David Henderson
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