On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:39:07PM -0600, Luke Palmer wrote:
> Matija Papec writes:
> >
> > Would there be a way to still use simple unquoted hash keys like in old
> > days ($hash{MYKEY})?
>
> Of course there's a way to do it. This is one of those decisions that I
> was against for the longest time, until one day something clicked and it
> made sense.
Out of curiosity, can you articulate what clicked? This one still
doesn't make sense to me, and I'd like to get it.
> You might do it something like this:
>
> macro postcircumfix:{} ($base, $subscript)
> is parsed( / $?subscript := (\w+) /)
> {
> return { $base.{"$subscript"} }
> }
I don't recall seeing postcircumfix before, nor can I find it in
A6...did I miss something?
Are there others, aside from these: ?
prefix: a unary prefix operator
infix: a binary infix operator
postfix: a binary suffix operator
circumfix: a bracketing operator
--Dks
