Bron Gondwana wrote:
>
> 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:
Either would be just as messy as what?
>
> my $thingy = $object->subobject->value;
>
I must not understand. Your example here strikes me as
unrelated/unaffected.
> > 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...
Ugly? What makes it ugly (to you)? Just having to type an additional
character?
Do you have a better suggestion for separating variable type from
context?
>
> Um, don't know about hash{[a-c].*} though (apply regular expression and only
> keep keys that match)
>
> --
> Bron ( but I don't think the ugliness is worth it in the end.. )
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