Re: RFC 109 (v1) Less line noise - let's get rid of @%

[John Barnette]

John Porter wrote:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
> >     $args = 'first second third';
> >     @args = split (' ', $args);
> >     my $i = 0;
> >     %args = map { $_ => ++$i } @args;
> >
> > This is very Perlish to me; the punctuation is part of the variable name
> > and disambiguates nicely.
> 
> No, it's not.  Where are we taught this?  It's a myth.
> The punctuation imposes context on the variable expression.
>         $foo[0]
> accesses an array.  Where's the "@"?

It accesses an *element* of the array, which is a scalar.  This scalar
might be blessed into a class, or a reference to an array or hash, but
the element itself is still a scalar.  Where's the confusion?

~ j.