On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 10:39:36AM -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > "Using" might be an interesting alternative > > Reminds me of BASIC :-) Works for me. > > What if the hash keys we want to use are not valid scalar names? For example, > > I've had keys like "total - female" as keys, but using the ^ syntax > > would fail on this... > > Good point. But who's to say that ^{total - female} doesn't work? That was actually the point of one of my examples... print "^{name}'s age is ^age\n"; I wanted to make sure that the {} notation was acceptable with "hat variables." You need it when you have keys like 'total - female', and you need it when you are going to have other text butting up against your variable name. Dave
- Re: pascal-like "with" was Re: Default fileh... Clayton Scott
- Re: pascal-like "with" was Re: Default fileh... Dave Storrs
- implied pascal-like "with" or "express&... David L. Nicol
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... Jeremy Howard
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... David L. Nicol
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... Jonathan Scott Duff
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... David L. Nicol
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... Dave Storrs
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... Brian Wheeler
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... Jonathan Scott Duff
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... Dave Storrs
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... Ken Fox
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... Jeremy Howard
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... David L. Nicol
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... Ken Fox
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... Damian Conway
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... Jeremy Howard
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... Damian Conway
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... James Mastros
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... Damian Conway
- Re: implied pascal-like "with" or "expr... Johan Vromans