I like some syntax that looks like $LEN{}.
I would love to keep the $...{ syntax open for future exentsion such
as easy target property set/get ( $[prop_name]{target} ) . This seems
to be okay as $ENV, and $CACHE only work on variables, so therefore
adding $LEN that also only works on variables se
On 1/22/19 7:40 AM, Daniel Franke wrote:
> Whats about a Syntax like
>
> ${list::LENGTH}
That would require dispatch after matching `${VAR}` syntax, and
that lookup is one of the hottest paths according to profiling.
We already have $ENV{} and $CACHE{} syntax.
-Brad
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On 1/22/19 7:09 AM, tors...@robitzki.de wrote:
>> Am 22.01.2019 um 12:42 schrieb Brad King:
>> Rather than a special `if` syntax, perhaps we could introduce an
>> explicit `$LIST_LENGTH{mylist}` syntax. One would need to experiment
>> to see if modifying the variable expansion parser (under CMP005
