Re: RFC: Filehandle type-defining punctuation

[Tom Christiansen]

>Scalars, hashes, arrays. There's actually more than one type of plural here,
>gramatically:

>    scalars     hashes  arrays
>    singular    dual    plural

>(Or am I the only one left who did Ancient Greek? :)

Nope: pudge and larry, at least.  

>> (and don't say, "because plural *means* more than one" :-).  If having a
>> filehandle character would make the code clearer, then let's do it.

>If it would, yes. I'm not convinced that it would. But I do concede that
>people see filehandles as something conceptually different from an "ordinary"
>scalar.

What about regexes?  

    $foo = qr/blech/;

Should that be /foo instead? :-)

Notice how even objects use $, not something else.

--tom