Mr. Nobody: # I have to wonder how many people actually like this syntax, # and how many only say they do because it's Damian Conway who # proposed it. And map/grep aren't "specialized syntax", you
IIRC Damian also supports Unicode operators (and may have originated the idea), and obviously many people don't like them. # could do the same thing with a sub with a prototype of # (&block, *@list). Great. That could mean it won't work right for MyCustomArrayLikeThing. # > 2) You might be able to combine L2R and R2L piping in one statement. # > Maybe. # # Oh goody. I was worrying they might not be confusing enough. There are a lot of confusing syntaxes in Perl--if you don't believe me, go look at the Obfuscation section on PerlMonks. :^) That doesn't mean we try to get rid of them--we just tell people not to use them, and they don't unless they're trying to be perverse. --Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @roles=map {"Parrot $_"} qw(embedding regexen Configure) "If you want to propagate an outrageously evil idea, your conclusion must be brazenly clear, but your proof unintelligible." --Ayn Rand, explaining how today's philosophies came to be