Re: Strings vs Numbers (Re: Tying & Overloading)

[Edward Peschko]

> I still think it's a good idea - better than any other proposed so far.
> 
> Are we so afraid of a little mandatory disambiguating white space
> that we are willing to pay the price of contorting other syntax
> beyond the bounds of sanity? :-)
> 
> It's perfectly obvious to me that
> 
>       $x = $foo . bar;
> 
> "wants" to mean concatenation, and that
> 
>       $x = $foo.bar;
> 
> doesn't.
> 
> Well, that's this inmate's HO anyway.
> 
> John.

I agree. The more I think about it, the more I like it. Think about it; we are 
actually considering space *by itself* to be syntax. Which is bound to cause 
more problems than space + '.'.

As for usability, I remember one project where someone had done this exact same
thing (via Filter::Util::Call) and it didn't cause any problems that I can 
remember.

I guess my question is what would be the syntax to access hashes? Would

$hashref.{ }

be that desirable? I really like ->{  } in that case..

Ed