On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
[snip]I like this in general. However...
Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:* Since we already stole angles from iterators, «$fh» is not how you make iterators iterate. Instead we use $fh.fetch (or whatever) in scalar context, and $fh.fetch or @$fh or $fh[] or *$fh in list context.
I believe you tried this one a couple years ago, and people freaked out. As an alternative, could we get a different operator for this?
Any other suggestions, people?
I think I will miss angles... well, at least for some time. Of the proposal above I like best @$fh, since it's the one that most conveys the idea of syntactic sugar for iteration while still being fundamentally intuitive.
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