On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 09:10:14 +0100,
Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My God, Perl 6 is going to be even less comprehensible that Perl 5,
> which was at least usable. Is »=>« really a Perl6 operator? That's too
> funny!
While we poor Python people have to cope with writing:
d = dict(zip(k, v))
instead of Perl 6's
%h = @k >>=><< @v;
But at least the Perl solution is 4 non-whitespace characters
shorter... unless you don't write the source in Unicode, in which you
have to put >> and << instead of the chevrons -- that makes it only 2
characters shorter.
> hoping-the-chevrons-were-emphasis-on-ly y'rs - steve
Nope; they turn the operator into a hyper operator that iterates over
its operands. See
<http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S03.html#___top>. Perl 6:
the PL/1 of scripting languages.
--amk
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