</snip> -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Scott Duff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 1:06 PM To: David L. Nicol Cc: Nathan Torkington; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PROTOPROPOSAL FOR NEW BACKSLASH is still Re: implied pascal-like"with" or "express" [...] How special purpose is "with"? Do people envision using it *only* on hashes? (I did until this email) If so, I like Damian's version best: http://www.mail-archive.com/perl6-language@perl.org/msg02649.html </snip> Just to see if I have that right... 1: use strict; 2: my %foo; 3: with (%foo) { 4: first => 10, 5: second => ^first - 5 6: } replaces: 1: use strict; 2: my %foo = ( first => 10); 3: $foo{second} = $foo{first} - 5; -Corwin
