"Michael Lazzaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > And note that as pretty as -> is, we couldn't have <- for piping > because it would conflict rather strongly things like > > if ($a<-5) # (negative five, or pipelike?)
Its resolved by the "longest token" rule, but it would be a common bug. So it would be a potential problem. <~ is equally ambiguous, but unary tilde is less common than unary minus. So squiggly-arrows might be better from that point of view. If we used straight arrays, then we might want to prefer the "unary-minus" interpretation in the parser, and thus require whitespace. > Otherwise, using -> and <- would be ideal. Especially since then > > $foo->bar > and > $foo.bar > > are exactly equiv, helping perl5 people. Ah, well. :-/ Not exactly equivalent: C<dot> would have a higher precedence than ->: Dave.
