In [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote:
> count = array; # scalar context because of assignment to
> scalar.
> alt_array[] = array; # list context
and if array is a subroutine?
count = array();
count = &array; # warning - special meaning in p5.
Either would be just as messy - and I like being able to say:
my $thingy = $object->subobject->value;
> I'm not the linguist that Mr. Wall is, but it strikes me that context should be
> derrived automatically as much as possible.
>
> An slightly different alternative would be that arrays and hashes are always
> referred to with their trailing indicator ([] or {}). So, from the example
> above, you'd have
>
> count=array[];
> alt_array[] = array[];
Yuck. Ugly as thingywhatsit, though it does have the advantage of making
syntax like array[2..5] for splice...
Um, don't know about hash{[a-c].*} though (apply regular expression and only
keep keys that match)
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Bron ( but I don't think the ugliness is worth it in the end.. )
