Nathan Wiger wrote:
> To rehash, all this discussion should involve is the possibility of
> making "my" swallow its list args:
> my $x, $y, $z; # same as my($x, $y, $z)
> That's it. No changing the way lists and , and = work in Perl.
But they are inextricably bound by perl's parsing rules.
You can't just change 'my's precedence and expect ",", "=", etc.
to be unaffected.
> If you want to use split you still have to say:
> my($name, $passwd) = split ':';
Special-casing this is unacceptable.
> FOR
> 1. It becomes more consistent with other Perl functions
AGAINST:
Consistency with functions (not "other" functions) is
not a goal.
> 2. It makes certain uses easier to write and understand,
> such as when declaring lots of variables on the same
> line. Many expect this:
> my $x, $y, $z;
> to DWIM.
AGAINST:
WYM is apparently not what most perl programmers mean.
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John Porter
You can't keep Perl6 Perl5.
