On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:56:34PM +0000, Smylers wrote:
: > A bare closure also interpolates in double-quotish context. It may
: > not be followed by any dereferencers, since you can always put them
: > inside the closure. ... The old disambiguation syntax ... is dead.
: > Use closure curlies instead:
: >
: > {$foo[$bar]}
: > {$foo}[$bar]
:
: That last example seems to violate the previous stipulation about not
: following a closure by dereferencers.
That's the point--it isn't a dereferencer. It's literal brackets. It's
replacing the old Perl 1 distinction:
${foo[$bar]}
${foo}[$bar]
simply by putting the $ inside instead of outside, and relying on
general closure interpolation, getting rid of two specific exceptions
for the price of one generality. Seems like a win to me.
Larry
