----- Original Message -----
From: "Deborah Pickett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Perl 6 Language" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: Mutating methods
> On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 05.30, John Siracusa wrote:
> > The only case that seems even
> > remotely onerous is this one:
> >
> > my My::Big::Class::Name $obj = My::Big::Class::Name.new();
> > vs.
> > my My::Big::Class::Name $obj .= new()
>
> There's also the related issue of in-place operations on some
> difficult-to-write lvalue:
>
> @{$coderef.("argument").{hashelem}} =
> sort @{$coderef.("argument").{hashelem}};
>
> Did I get the text the same both times? What about maintaining that code?
> What about side effects on the subroutine I called there?
>
> Someone Damian-shaped will probably come in and point out how to prettify
that
> using "given", but it still wouldn't be as short as last week's
>
> $coderef.("argument").{hashelem}.self:sort();
Why not just do
@{$_} = sort @{$_} given $coderef.("argument").{hashelem};
Joe Gottman
