Greg Wilson wrote:
>> Ron Adam:
>> How about the '!' which is currently used indicate a python long and an
>> integer. Here it would indicate the difference between a frozen
>> container and a mutable container.
>> frozen_set = {1, 2, 3}!
>> frozen_dict = {1:'a', 2:'b', 3:'c'}!
>
> Greg Wilson:
> I mostly don't like suffix operators --- too easy to miss them when
> reading code (especially if the thing they're being applied to is more
> than a couple of symbols long).
>
>> Nick Coghlan:
>> set() == set{}
>> set(x) # No braced equivalent
>> set([x]) == set{x} # Ignoring list comprehensions
>> set((x,)) == set{x}
>> set((a, b, c)) == set{a, b, c}
>
> I would rather stick to what we have than introduce two notations for
> construction, call, subscripting, etc. --- Perl's [] vs. {} *always*
> causes headaches for newcomers.
And last time I looked they were gonna change it for Perl 6.
Georg
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