On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:15:51PM -0500, John Porter wrote:
> Adam Turoff wrote:
> > This message is not an RFC, nor is it an intent to add a feature
> > to Perl or specify a syntax for that feature[*].
>
> Yay.
>
[...]
> So you think
>
> @s =
> map { $_->[0] }
> sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }
> map { [ $_, /num:(\d+)/ ] }
> @t;
>
> would be more clearly written as
>
> @s = schwartzian(
> {
> second_map => sub { $_->[0] },
> the_sort => sub { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] },
> first_map => sub { [ $_, /num:(\d+)/ ] },
> },
> @t );
>
> ???
Which part of "not ... an intent to ... specify a syntax" didn't
you understand?
And, no, I don't think that verbosity is an improvement, nor do I
remember recommending newbie-confounding syntax with verbosity.
Z.
