On 4/23/01 4:16 PM, Larry Wall wrote:
> What is it about . that seems to inspire allergic reactions in people?
> Surely it's not the . itself, but the requirement that you fit everything
> into that one syntactic mold. Perl's not going to do that.
I don't mind it, but I always imagined:
$obj->method();
$obj.attribute;
or something vaguely C-ish like that. And I think most Perl folks like the
-> for class/object methods. It's a cute little arrow :) You'll have to
make it very clear why . is a better fit for Perl 6 than -> Otherwise
people will probably mourn the missing Mr. Pointy ;)
-John
