On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 01:25:23AM +0200, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Damian Conway wrote:
>> In fact, I would even be happy with requiring @a.=push and @a.=shift, if
>> it meant that there were *no* special cases. One extra character is a
>> small price to pay for perfect SWIM (and not just "Say What I Mean",
>> the real benefit is the other SWIM: "See What I Meant").
>
> I don't like @a.=shift. It looks like @a = @a.shift, which is of course
> not what you mean.
He meant unshift, I suspect.
Nevertheless, for any major methods borrowed from Perl 6, I'm not
inclined to change them that drastically. Much more likely to
define them as sugar for the more general list operators:
.push means .=append
.unshift means .=prepend
.splice means .=impend :-)
or some such.
Larry
