On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 09:12:38PM +0000, Daniel Perrett wrote: > =head1 TANGENT > > ... about the design of context in perl. > > I get how you can do things like {%original, %changes}, but is there a > reason why the => couldn't add some magic and assume scalar context on > whatever it precedes? The only case I imagine it would break would be > a hypothetical {%original, key=> @odd_list }, but I don't know why > anyone would do that.
Perhaps it would be nice if it had been like that right from the start, but ... http://grep.cpan.me/?q=%3D%3E+%40 -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic PLEASE NOTE: This message was meant to offend everyone equally, regardless of race, creed, sexual orientation, politics, choice of beer, operating system, mode of transport, or their editor.