* Peter da Silva <[email protected]> [2006-12-22 14:10]: > The fix to pointlessly obscure syntax is to introduce more > obscure syntax that handles some common cases that the > pointlessly obscure syntax makes difficult... without actually > doing anything about the fact that you have to use
Fallacy. Fixing the pointlessly obscure filehandle syntax wasn't remotely the point of introducing the diamond operator's magic behaviour. Making Perl more useful for writing utilities was the point, and it definitely succeeds at that. Certainly I don't hate the fact that I can add features to many scripts by deleting a bunch of code. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
