On 2003-01-17 at 14:15:46, I wrote: > But as I see it, the real problem being solved by the new syntax > is that grep and map can exist solely as methods on some class > in the inheritance tree of @arrays, no global functions required. > That is a Good Thing. I realize that such also be true if we just disallowed that direction, requiring e.g. %hash.keys.grep().map(). I would personally be perfectly happy with that restriction, and in fact find the operation much clearer when written that way. But I don't see any harm in providing a mechanism to allow the reversal; TMTOWDI is going to be as true of Perl6 as it is of Perl5.
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