On Thursday, August 1, 2002, at 04:05 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Having the subscript operator change the topic is, IMHO, a rather strong
> violation of the principle of least surprise.
I'm inclined to agree. I think I'd much rather not have it change there,
since I'll frequently do stuff like this:
my %hash;
for qw(one two three) {
%hash{$_} = 1; # $_ should *not* == %hash here!
}
Regards,
David
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