On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:09:57AM +0300, Yuval Kogman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 13:39:44 -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:55:26PM -0400, Nathan Gray wrote: > > : So long as .foo (pretty please) means $_.foo all the time (with sugar on > > : top?). > > > > It means that all the time, but only when unambiguous. If you say > > > > use dot; > > I'd rather have '.foo' not work on $?SELF at all than have that.
Um, that's what I was hoping for too. Let .foo mean $_.foo, and never $?SELF.foo, unless of course $_ happens to contain $?SELF at that moment. (sugar, anyone?) -kolibrie
