>>>>> "w" == wolverian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
w> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:07:02PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: >> please don't use <== for simple assignments as it will confuse too many >> newbies and auch. it (and its sister ==>) are for pipelining ops like >> map/grep and for forcing assignment to the slurpy array arg of funcs >> (hey, i think i said that correctly! :). = is still fine for basic >> assignment and everyone will understand it immediately. w> I thought the op is visually so obvious it wouldn't need any w> explanation, even for newbies. w> Too bad what I _think_ is often not what actually _is_. well, = has massive history on its side and almost all commonly used languages use it for assignment (pascal is NOT common anymore, thankfully and lisp isn't common enough :). so there is zero learning curve for that. you do need to learn about perl's precedences which need () for assigning a list. but <== may seem obvious to you and for sure to anyone here but imagining what newbies would make of it boggles me. if there is a way to misunderstand it and abuse it, it will happen. :) so consider it just a style rule that i would encourage. damian should add it to his P6BP book when it comes out next christmas. :) uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org
