On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
+ $* and $# have been deprecated half of forever and are gone. $[
+ is a fossil that I suppose could turn into an evil pragma, if we
+ try to translate it at all. (Frees up * twigil for $*FOO syntax.)
I'm not even sure this makes sense to me. Is this saying that $* and $#
are
largely not in use anymore (in perl6)?
Read the section on "twigils" in S02. Hopefully things will make
more sense after that. It says that $* is no longer a separate variable,
but is used for $*OSNAME, $*VM, and the like.
The perl5 $*, $#, $[ have been deprecated for a long time, and are not in
perl6 at all. (And I would strongly discourage any attempt to support $[ by
pragma. But @Larry.grep: "allb...@ece.cmu.edu" is Failure :)
I'm in favour of retaining the $[ functionality, but lets give it some
name like $*INDEX_BEGINNING or something like that, so that it's quite long
for people to type :).
:)
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