At 01:19 PM 5/8/2001 -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
>* Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05/08/2001 09:36]:
> >
> > Taking history into account is good, though I'd argue that now is the
> > proper time to change history, if we're going to change. Perl would
> > never have been accepted in the first place had it been too different
> > from what came before, but now that Perl has its own momentum, we can
> > now look at how our own history gets in our way, and maybe do something
> > about it.
>
>Very true. To this end I just would add that I think many JAPHs are used
>to and like <> as readline. I know I do. I'm not going to harp on this
>point endlessly, but this is one aspect that I do like about Perl. And
>keep in mind that unlike "->" vs "." , *everyone* knows about <FILEHANDLE>.
>It is as pervasive as $ and @.
>
>That being said, I'm open to the idea of simply replacing <> with < and
>tweaking the semantics a little. For one thing, it's a char shorter. For
>another, there's a > equivalent.
The one thing I worry about with a single-character readrecord character is
determining when someone's reading from the default filehandle.
Dan
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