On 9 Oct 2008, at 12:59 am, Paul LeoNerd Evans wrote:

Perhaps a better comparison may be

  my $foo = $a + $b[5];

and

add scalar a to the fifth element of array b and assign to new scalar
    foo


How about...?

foo = a + b[5]

The [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc signs are misplaced in modern perl (which is shown through Ruby's better use of them). A lot of the braces and brackets and ; could all be (to a large extent) kicked out of the language. Ruby manages it. Haskell manages it. C# is getting closer to it. I don't know more than a drop of Python but it looks cleaner (from a distance). Why keep in a load of stuff just because it was there in version 4 and just because a (new language) version called Perl6 may be completed soon.


but then does it really buy all that much?

For me, it says what I mean vs doing what I mean, which is why a lot of projects choose other languages which may be more verbose or "less expressive", but ultimately are easier to read than perl.


if $a ~~ $b     #this could mean several things

if $a in $b             #it is clear what this means

if a in b               #this is even better IMO


Iain


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