On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 06:38, Smylers wrote:
> So if the difference between lists with parens and anon arrays with
> square brackets is going away, it may make sense to standardize on the
> latter rather than the former. In other words, lists now use square
> brackets.
>
> That frees up parens for overriding precedence:
>
> > (3 + 4) == 7 -- the mathematical way
> > (3 + 4) == 1 -- the length of the list ... BAD!
>
> (3 + 4) == 7
> [3 + 4] == 1
I don't disagree that this is a good thing, but let's look at some cases
that might not look the way you had intended:
[$a,$b,$c] = [1,2,3]; # or is that ($a,$b,$c)?
my($x,$y,$z) = [1,2,3];
[1,2,3][1] == 2;
Thoughts?
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Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
