On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Austin Hastings wrote:
: > No, no. I'm talking about the unary . prefix
: >
: > method blah {
: > .foo()
: > [.]foo() # What does this mean?
: > }
:
: Vector of invocations of the foo methods of the current topic.
Except that the topic is by definition singular in a method, and so
is a method name. So it'd be no different from ordinary dot. Maybe
it's an error to use a vector op on two scalars.
: Presumably you'd have an array in topic, or you'd use it in an array
: context.
:
: for @lol -> @onelist {
: @a = [.]foo();
: }
Yes, that would work, though I'd love to see it:
for @lol -> @onelist {
@a = «.»foo();
}
instead. Maybe ^[+] (or whatever) is just a workaround for people
who can't figure out how to write «+». I love the "shimmers" on
either side of the operator. That's a nice plural visual metaphor.
I'd even be willing to give up «foo bar baz» meaning qw(foo bar baz)
for this.
Larry
