Larry Wall skribis 2005-03-12 12:26 (-0800):
> Well, we thrashed that one around a lot at one of our meetings, and
> the general consensus was that array interpolation and the default
> stringification of arrays should probably work the same for consistency.
> (Likewise for hashes.) And that the default for both of those needs
> some whitespace.
Fair enough, but does this mean that ~reverse(<foo bar>) eq "rab oof",
and not "raboof"?
> cat(@foo)
> @foo.cat
I like this.
> And arguably, the current structure of join is that the delimiter is
> the invocant, so cat should be defined as
> ''.join(@foo)
This is what Python does. It does not make any sense to me, and I can't
wrap my mind around it at all. Ruby-ish @foo.join('') seems more
natural.
Just like with how I prefer $fh.print($text) to $text.print($fh), I
cannot explain WHY this is how my mind works.
Juerd
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