On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 01:05:24PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
: Michael G Schwern wrote:
: >
: > cc and ce
: >
: > Perl 5 Perl 6
: > print "foo" . "bar"; print "foo" cc "bar;
: > print 2 . 4; print 2 cc 4;
: > print "foo " . ($i + 1); print "foo " cc ($i + 1);
: > $foo .= "bar "; $foo ce "bar";
:
: > It also has the nice side-effect of preserving '.=' functionality,
: > which I'd rather not lose (especially after having made fun of
: > $foo = $foo . 'bar'; type code).
:
: While we're brainstorming a wish-list, here's something I've always
: wanted, a replacement for:
:
: $a = $b . $a;
:
: Under the above plan, maybe this is:
:
: $a ca $b;
:
: For "concat after"?
Now this sparks my interest. :)
The only think I don't like is:
$a ce $b;
$a ca $b;
because I'm so used to seing
$a [char]= $b;
I would think of:
$a c= $b;
but then the ca() idea might not be feasible unless we thought:
$a ce= $b;
$a ca= $b;
was a good idea.
--
Casey West
