Am 08.05.2017 um 20:59 schrieb Brandon Allbery:
On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev via RT
<perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org <mailto:perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org>> wrote:
Usually I'm against all perl5 error messages
This is a Pythonism (and C and other such languages).
Which doesn't mean that that's a bad thing.
It all comes down to whether you want the usual semantics of [] apply to
character positions in a string.
If [] can to to the LHS, and Perl6 strings are immutable, then having []
would be a mistake.
If accessing individual characters in a string is a bad idea in general
(a defensible position in the age of Unicode), then having [] for
strings might be a bad idea even if you could otherwise implement that.
If the mental model for Perl6 strings is "array of characters" though,
then having [] for uniformity is probably a good idea, and more
important than keeping Perl5 restrictions.
Just my 2 cents from the sideline.
Disclaimer: I'm much more an Abstract Data Type guy than a Perl guy, so
feel free to ignore because inappropriate.
