On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:05:30PM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:53:26AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote: > : Also, if we provide a way to return a pair instead of a value from a > : hash (currently done with the new :%hash<key> syntax), > > Whoops, I forgot I changed that to %hash:<key> (and %hash:{'key'} too).
Playing the devil's advocate; maybe that should be %hash.pairs<key>, or %hash.pair:key? I don't like the : there - it's too small, and hidden %between the larger syntactical elements. > Larry -- Ilmari Vacklin