On 9/20/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Conjecture: We need a corresponding sigil to request captureness. As with @ and %, you can store a capture in a $ to hide it, but we don't have the ability to have capture variables that know how to behave like captures without fakey syntactic help.
Once upon a time I had an unproposed proposal that the thing that distinguished @ from $ is that @ auto-flattens. So perhaps captures as well as arrays can be stored in @-variables, if you define flattening as the [,] operator. The reason I didn't propose it is because I couldn't figure out what to do with %. Luke
