--- Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 'kay. As an aside, I've always itched for a qlike op that was
> matrix-like, e.g.
>
> my Pet @list = qm{
> fido dog collie
> fluffy cat siamese
> };
That should be qo, and possibly @qo or qoo -- it quotes an object.
Since c<my Pet $lunch;> knows what type thing $lunch is, there's no
reason not to either automagically invoke a constructor or list of
init-funcs for $lunch, or at least create a temporary anonymous Pet and
then copy/clone it.
Likewise, either @lunch implies that qo takes multiple (perhaps a
single object can simply init with { attr, attr, ... }) or qoo does
arrays...
my Pet @dogs = qo{ # Note {} delims looks more like collars ...
fido dog collie
fluffy cat siamese
};
> And I always wished
>
> $=
> @=
> %=
Isn't % the modulus (remainder-after-division) operator? And isn't %=
the perform-and-assign version thereof?
---
In the manner of Accent, I'd like @ reserved as the RPC operator.
(There aren't many Accent programmers, but I am one of them, and it's a
[barely] living language used in a production environment. I'm not
proud of this, mind you ... :-)
$result = myfunc($arg, $arg2) @ $host;
This implies that @= is a pretty useless op, but maybe if tasks are
objects it's not so bad.
my Task dostuff = qo( myfunc 0 ); # function, priority
$dostuff @= $otherhost;
$dostuff.start;
This is admittedly a stretch.
-----
Perhaps $ could be catenation as well as scalar reference?
Discrete scalars with or without intervening unescaped whitespace are
concatenated. '$' is used to make explicit the treatment of any
subexpression as a scalar.
$a = $b $" " $c;
$a = $b$c; # Tres DWIM, sir. And the shell programmers will get it.
$a = $b $ f(g($x));
@a = @b ^$ @c;
@a $= @b; # @a = @a $ @b, aka @a.push(@b);
$a $= $b; # $a = $a $ $b, or $a$b
> <$>
> <@>
> <%>
>
> would do something, too, because they look so pretty. :-D
>
Would you like breaktyping with that, sir?
=Austin
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