This whole thing is actually a deep and complicated imbroglio--as I know
you, Damian, are aware. I don't know your ideas for untangling it.
Sure you do: indirect objects MUST DIE! ;-)
But I freely admit that's not a satisfactory solution.
Meanwhile, thank-you for the masterly
Tom Christiansen wrote:
But I will *not* relish typing
STDERR-print("darn")
Agreed. The day this is required is the day Perl stops becoming fun and
starts becoming C++.
No matter what, I think that any basic script should be able to be
written without any -'s.
One goal of my RFC was
Damian Conway wrote:
Nor I. That's why I'd advocate mandatory braces on indirect objects.
I'd rather:
print {STDERR} "darn"
any day.
Sorry, I'm way against that. If you're going to force that, then just
enforce:
STDERR-print("darn")
Same amount of typing.
Indirect objects
