Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying comma) with =>

[Bart Lateur]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:59:52 -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote:

>I find nothing in the documentation that suggests that => is anything other than a
>plain comma operator, yet you call it a "first-argument-stringifying comma
>operator".  In fact, the documentation explicitly claims "=>" is a synonym of ","
>(see perldata).

I wonder what old version of the docs you are using. My perldata says:

    The `=>' operator is mostly just a more visually distinctive
    synonym for a comma, but it also arranges for its left-hand operand
    to be interpreted as a string--if it's a bareword that would be a
    legal identifier.

Calling "=>" a synonym for "," is not the whole truth. It ignores the
presence of the word "mostly" in that sentence, for one.

-- 
        Bart.