Re: C or SH like string cat proposal

[Michael G Schwern]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:10:10AM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
 That means, if you have a long list of scalars rou want to cat
   together and it will run over the edge of your line
   you can do this:
 
   $onethroughten = $one$two$three$four$five
   $six$seven$eight$nine$ten;

I think the proper phrase here is ick.  To my non-C, non-Shell
programming eyes, that's just a confused jumble.  It'll also play hell
with trying to mix strings in there.  I could live my entire life
without seeing:

$foo = $one$two'three'$fourfive$six

 Will someone please explain to me the indirect object syntax
 which this allegedly steps on?

(The hellish abomination of ;) indirect object syntax works like this:

$obj = new Some::Module @args;

to mean

$obj = Some::Module-new(@args);

Any proposal which tries to use whitespace as a concatination operator
runs into its territory, but I don't think yours would cause problems
(except for the rash of patients admitted to local hospitals with
bleeding eyes).


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Let me check my notes...

C or SH like string cat proposal

[David L. Nicol]

1:  use adjacency w/o white space for string cat.

2:  allow, as in C, consecutive double-quoted strings
with no intervening tokens (i.e. just whitespace and comments) to
be considered as one string

3:  as Uri pointed out, it's all syntactic sugar for convolutions
of Cjoin


That means, if you have a long list of scalars rou want to cat
together and it will run over the edge of your line
you can do this:

$onethroughten = $one$two$three$four$five
$six$seven$eight$nine$ten;


Will someone please explain to me the indirect object syntax
which this allegedly steps on?


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