Phoenix.pm: quoting constant hash keys survey

Anthony Nemmer intertwingled at qwest.net
Sat Apr 17 10:12:32 CDT 2004


No, in a case like this, Perl 6 will recursively walk %foo.bar, 
concatenate it together into a string and concatenate that to whatever 
bar() returns. =)

Tony

eden li wrote:

> I like it, but I don't see why perl can't just adopt the dot like Java 
> and C.
>
> %foo.bar -> %foo{'bar'}
>
> I guess could be ambiguously parsed as a string concat operator:
>
> (%foo) . bar()
>
> But I'm wondering if %foo can exist in that context all by itself in 
> Perl6.  Anyway, either way, I'm all for typing less.  Besides, 
> gullimets seem to stand out more than they should, especially for 
> every hash access in which you don't feel like typing quotes.
>
> Scott Walters wrote:
>
>> Okey, everyone run and vote - yea or nay. Let's hear it. Even if your
>> reasons are unfounded, vote.
>
>
>
>


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