In lists.projects.perl.language, you wrote:
>It's likely to work better in Perl 6. To mean what it currently
>means, you'll probably have to write something like:
>
> @foo[0] := <STDIN>;
>
>The colon here is not functioning merely to make the assignment look
>like Pascal. It means, in this case, the following operator is
>intended to work on arrays, not scalars. Hence, :+ would be pairwise
>array addition.
Why a colon? It has no particular connection to arrays that I can see,
and it will confuse people who know what := means in Pascal.
An (ugly) alternative might be @= or @+ which at least have a connection
to the @ sign in the array name and could be read as "array assignment"
and "array addition".
K.
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