On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 08:07, Simon Cozens wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Scott Duff) writes: > > Why can't perl be smart enough to figure out what we mean? > > We're talking about lists, the second most fundamental data structure > in the language. > > If we have to resort to much magic to get these right, we're pretty much > doomed from the outset.
You have that upside-down. Because this is so fundamental, it's worth a great deal of magic to make it "seem right" in as many contexts as possible. This is what Perl has always done, no? -- Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
