Re: RFC 109 (v1) Less line noise - let's get rid of @%

[Russ Allbery]

John Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:

>>     $args = 'first second third';
>>     @args = split (' ', $args);
>>     my $i = 0;
>>     %args = map { $_ => ++$i } @args;

>> This is very Perlish to me; the punctuation is part of the variable
>> name and disambiguates nicely.

> No, it's not.  Where are we taught this?  It's a myth.

> The punctuation imposes context on the variable expression.

>       $foo[0]

> accesses an array.  Where's the "@"?

Now the [0] is disambiguating.  Same difference.  I'm not interested in
nit-picking semantics.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>