Re: RFC 110 (v3) counting matches

[Nathan Wiger]

Tom Christiansen wrote:
> 
> >While I agree that /l is bad, I think going through the crap of "= () ="
> >is even worse. Does it work? Yes. But is it easily usable and fun, even
> >for non-experts? No.
> 
> Oh, for crying out loud--at some point, you have to stop tossing
> rotting fish for the starving ignorant and actually get them to
> LEARN something.  Or let them die of starvation.
> 
> Note the difference between
> 
>     my $var = func();
> 
> and
> 
>     my($var) = func();

Fine. I understand that. Surprise! I'm not an idiot.

But, for "crying out loud!", then what the hell do we need "scalar" for?
You can accomplish the same thing like this:

   $num = @array;
   print "Got $num elements";

"scalar" makes things easy. So does something like "list". This

   $stuff = () = $r =~ /crap/shit/;

Doesn't make anything easy.

> Perl does context.  Perl does *IMPLICIT* context.  Cope.

Great. Then let's drop "scalar" to be consistent. This can be done
completely implicitly, right?

-Nate