Re: $:attr vs $.:attr

2005-05-16 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 09:08, Aaron Sherman wrote: > Well, there's the problem. If you see those as the same symbol, then of > course this is deeply confusing. I just want to make the point that the "you" in that sentence is "you, the user of Perl", not "you, Juerd". Obviously, you are not confuse

Re: $:attr vs $.:attr

2005-05-16 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 12:23 +0200, Juerd wrote: > Aaron Sherman skribis 2005-05-16 5:54 (-0400): > > I'm not sure I see that you changed anything [...] > Okay, let's try it differently, then: [...something that looks like braille...] And now, you've s/[\$\w]+//g; what point are you making, Jue

Re: $:attr vs $.:attr

2005-05-16 Thread Juerd
Aaron Sherman skribis 2005-05-16 5:54 (-0400): > On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 19:18 +0200, Juerd wrote: > > Now: > > Declaration ExplicitImplicit $_ $?SELF > > has $.var | $obj.var \ .var \ ./var \ > > has $:var | $obj.:var \ .:var \ ./:var \

Re: $:attr vs $.:attr

2005-05-16 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 19:18 +0200, Juerd wrote: > Now: > Declaration ExplicitImplicit $_ $?SELF > has $.var | $obj.var \ .var \ ./var \ > has $:var | $obj.:var \ .:var \ ./:var \ > > Consistent: > has $.var \ $obj.var \

Re: $:attr vs $.:attr

2005-05-15 Thread Juerd
Now: Declaration ExplicitImplicit $_ $?SELF has $.var | $obj.var \ .var \ ./var \ has $:var | $obj.:var \ .:var \ ./:var \ Consistent: has $.var \ $obj.var \ .var \ ./var \ has $.:var \$

$:attr vs $.:attr

2005-05-15 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 18:34 +0200, Juerd wrote: > I've been looking for a good moment to come with this, but there is > none, making this as good a point as any: I don't like the dot in > attributes, and the colon that replaces it. > > If we have .method and .:method, then we should have $.attr a