On 10/25/05, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think it'd be great if +=, ~=, +&=, ++, etc, could all assume $_ on
> their LHS when there is no obvious operand.
>
> This clashes with &prefix:<=>, but that's nothing a space cannot fix.
> Same for lvalue subs called x or xx (or X or XX).
>
> my $subject = "foo foo foo";
> given ($subject) {
> s/foo/bar/; # "bar foo foo"
> ++; # "bar foo fop"
> x= 2; # "bar foo fopbar foo fop"
> ~= "!"; # "bar foo fopbar foo fop!"
> }
>
> Especially bare ++ would be useful, I think.
Did you post this specifically to anti-address the fear that P6 will
be more line-noise-ish than P5? :-p
Rob
