Pretty sure we tried that on an irc discussion and it didn't work. Perl
only quotes things that look like words, as I recall.
On Aug 19, 2012 4:58 PM, "Tom Nishimura" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Would it be possible to overload the hash-ref dereferencing operator
> instead, so that we can get rid of the quotes as well? So we can have
> $a->{(0),} instead of $a->('(0),')? (I assume that you can indeed
> overload ->{} and that perl will stringify contents without thinking
> it's a regular arithmetic expression first... maybe this won't work :-P)
> Tom
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012, at 09:05 AM, Joel Berger wrote:
> > Hi again, I sent this to the PDLPorters list, but it seems that it
> > didn't take. I'm resending to the perldl list and if that doesn't
> > work, I'm not sure what's up.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Joel
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Joel Berger <[email protected]>
> > Date: Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:22 PM
> > Subject: A slightly cleaner slice without source filters
> > To: pdl-porters <[email protected]>
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > David knows that I don't use NiceSlice because I worry about source
> > filters, probably more than I should. Still given the recent problem
> > on the list, I thought I would look again at the other options. I keep
> > thinking that I want to drop a note to the developers of
> > Devel::Declare to see if I could hook into the scalar opcode rather
> > than keyword as D::D does now; if I could get that, then a NiceSlice
> > would be easy to implement. Absent that, I hacked out this little
> > thing this morning which saves 5 keystrokes.
> >
> > (see at gist: https://gist.github.com/3379468)
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/env perl
> >
> > use strict;
> > use warnings;
> >
> > package PDL;
> > use overload '&{}' => sub {
> > my $pdl = shift;
> > return sub { unshift @_, $pdl; goto &PDL::slice };
> > };
> >
> > package main;
> >
> > use PDL;
> > my $a = xvals(5,5);
> > print $a->('(0),');
> >
> > What do you all think?
> >
> > Joel
> >
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