Re: backticks (or slash, maybe)

2004-04-19 Thread Angel Faus
MiƩrcoles 14 Abril 2004 14:18, Juerd wrote: > I propose to use ` as a simple hash subscriptor, as an alternative > to {} and <<>>. It would only be useable for \w+ keys or perhaps > -?\w+. As with methods, a simple "atomic" (term exists only in > perlreftut, afaix, but I don't know another word to

Re: backticks (or slash, maybe)

2004-04-19 Thread Juerd
Angel Faus skribis 2004-04-19 22:43 (+0200): > If we really need a ultra-huffman encoding for hash subscriptors, I > have always dreamt of being able to do: > %hash/key > $hashref/foo/bar/baz/quux > ... I'd hate to give up dividing slash. It's one of the few operators that I sometimes type

Re: backticks (or slash, maybe)

2004-04-19 Thread Sean O'Rourke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juerd) writes: > Angel Faus skribis 2004-04-19 22:43 (+0200): >> If we really need a ultra-huffman encoding for hash subscriptors, I >> have always dreamt of being able to do: >> %hash/key >> $hashref/foo/bar/baz/quux >> ... > > I'd hate to give up dividing slash. It's on

Re: backticks (or slash, maybe)

2004-04-19 Thread Juerd
Sean O'Rourke skribis 2004-04-19 15:11 (-0700): > > I'd hate to give up dividing slash. It's one of the few operators that I > > sometimes type without whitespace. Simple because 1/10 is good enough > > and 1 / 10 is very wide. > You can have both, though. But not in a way that makes $foo/$bar div

Re: backticks (or slash, maybe)

2004-04-19 Thread Sean O'Rourke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juerd) writes: > Sean O'Rourke skribis 2004-04-19 15:11 (-0700): >> > I'd hate to give up dividing slash. It's one of the few operators that I >> > sometimes type without whitespace. Simple because 1/10 is good enough >> > and 1 / 10 is very wide. >> You can have both, though. >

Re: backticks (or slash, maybe)

2004-04-19 Thread Matthijs van Duin
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 03:34:13PM -0700, Sean O'Rourke wrote: in a '/' is a regex, anything otherwise is a hash slice. I don't understand. Could you give some examples? Is this in the context of bare /path/to/foo, even? /foo/ # trailing slash -- so it's a regexp (m/foo/) /foo\/bar/ #

Re: backticks (or slash, maybe)

2004-04-19 Thread Juerd
Sean O'Rourke skribis 2004-04-19 15:34 (-0700): > I'm saying "division" is now defined such that when the numerator is > a hash(-ref), the result is the set of values associated with the > denominator. I've never tried to divide a hash or hashref by > something without it being a bug. I understan

Re: backticks (or slash, maybe)

2004-04-19 Thread Damian Conway
Sean O'Rourke wrote: > I'm saying "division" is now defined such that when the numerator is > a hash(-ref), the result is the set of values associated with the > denominator. I've never tried to divide a hash or hashref by > something without it being a bug. Right...in Perl 5. In Perl 6, a hash