On 2005-10-21 1:54 PM, "Nate Wiger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, C and PHP both use -> "still".
C++ is probably more relevant than C, but since it inherited the syntax, same diff. But in their case the underlying form is still a dot; A->B is just syntactic sugar for (*A).B. The distinction involved doesn't really exist in Perl, so it only needed one form, and $Larry decided to go with dot for concatenation and the arrow for dereferencing. Then enough other languages made the opposite choice that a rethink was warranted. PHP was just copying Perl5, so it doesn't count. :) > I really do understand that - really. But I think things are getting a > bit overboard. The Latin-1 sigil is another discussion that nobody wants > to admit is a legit problem, despite numerous legitimate issues. Even > being able to type in the syntax itself is going to be problematic! It's more a case of having had the discussion over and over again already, I think. Nothing came up in this thread that hadn't been said before. The design team is aware of the issues - really. They simply have decided that the trade-off in legibility worth it. > Anyways, you can listen or not listen to those of us from real, large, > corporate environments. I'm just trying to temper the enthusiasm for > many of the real improvements in Perl 6 with some of the real costs - > which are largely being ignored as "no big deal". Again, I don't think it's "no big deal" so much as "already acknowledged and stipulated." For instance, we already have non-ASCII operators, so the introduction of ยข doesn't introduce any new issues of the sort being discussed. > I'm a big Perl advocate, but I guess I'm just not sure if I'm gonna be a > big Perl 6 advocate yet. There's alot of downsides and real business risk. I don't think there are "a lot of downsides". There is definitely a risk, as with any new technology, and I'm largely adopting a wait-and-see attitude myself, but I don't see any huge negatives anywhere. What are these downsides? >From a practical standpoint, it will be a while before I have to worry about Perl6 professionally, because we're not going to want to use it until it's been around long enough to have some kinks worked out.
