On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 05:41:57AM -0000, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>. Some criticized it as being too sugary, since this:
>
> $string =~ quotemeta; # $string = quotemeta $string;
>
> Is not as clear as the original. However, there is fairly similar
> precedent in:
>
> $x += 5; # $x = $x + 5;
Looks great on scalars, but...
@foo =~ shift; # @foo = $foo[0] ?
@foo =~ unshift; # @foo = $foo[-1] ?
Although I have to admit I like:
@foo =~ grep !/\S/;
But I'm not very keen on the idea of
%foo =~ keys;
--
A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.
-- D. Gries
