On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:54:09PM +0200, Juerd wrote: : Larry Wall skribis 2005-05-06 10:37 (-0700): : > Alternately, we could make =$foo an lvalue, but ==> =$foo is a bit strange, : > and people will think it means to write to filehandle $foo. Or we could : > force people to say something evil like ==> my $foo is Iterator. : : I would personally not mind having an extra primary sigil for iterators. : They're different enough, and used enough.
But then how do you know if you just want to pass one as a scalar and not iterate it? Larry