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Postings from April 2001
Nathan Wiger wrote: > I *really* don't want this to turn into a religious argument, Neither do I. > coming from a sh/C background. I understand. I think I was able to learn Perl as quickly as I did because of certain syntactic similarities. But it's not why I program in Perl now, and it's certainly now why I *like* to program in Perl now. > ...closer to other languages with -> vs ., then adding "~" works against > that goal. This is made worse by the fact that *everyone* - Perl hackers > and Java programmers alike - will perceive this as different from all > other languages. It runs directly counter to the original goal: Making > Perl syntax more consistent with other languages. The more I read about this issue, the more I think the string concat operator ought to /[a-z]+/, like the other string ops. -- John Porter