On 2005-07-18, Mark Stosberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I really dislike systems that try to collapse hash dereferences and
>> method calls into a single syntax. Petal does this and it drives me
>> nuts - I can never figure out what I'm looking at from the template.
>> And it does matter because methods may have side-effects and hash
>> derefs don't.
>
> I can see your point here. Should we bring back the arrow for methods?
> That seems to be the most obvious (Until Perl6 gets here).
>
> Or we could keep the dot notation because that's where Perl6 is going,
> and bring back the bracket notation for hashes.
I'm thought more about this. The arrow should be avoided because ">" is
not valid HTML.
More significantly, I've come back to advocating the dot notation for
both because from the user's perspective it's an implementation detail.
As a programmer, I think I can quickly check the top level name to see
what's going on. Already we have to look at $value and guess whether
it's a string, an arrayref or a hashref.
Mark
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