Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "express"

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:39:36AM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> "Using" might be an interesting alternative

Reminds me of BASIC  :-)

> What if the hash keys we want to use are not valid scalar names?  For example,
> I've had keys like "total - female" as keys, but using the ^ syntax
> would fail on this...

Good point.  But who's to say that ^{total - female} doesn't work?

-Scott
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