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>>>>> "NW" == Nathan Wiger <nate@west.sun.com> writes: NW> $a = $b . $a; NW> Under the above plan, maybe this is: NW> $a ca $b; substr( $a, 0, 0, $b ) ; $a =~ s/^/$b/ ; just my $.02 on this. i rarely use bare . for concat. as someone else mentioned, it is usually only needed when you have expressions or function calls that don't directly interpolate in "". a long . expression with many terms is rare and probably best done with join ''. on the other hand, i use .= all the time and wouldn't like to lose it. schwern idea of ce doesn't work for me as only the op= stuff means assignment and ce would break that (e for = isn't visual enough). .= could still be left working as that is a complete separate op from method invocation. i can live with most any other form of . including none. join is fine for that. uri -- Uri Guttman --------- uri@sysarch.com ---------- http://www.sysarch.com SYStems ARCHitecture and Stem Development ------ http://www.stemsystems.com Learn Advanced Object Oriented Perl from Damian Conway - Boston, July 10-11 Class and Registration info: http://www.sysarch.com/perl/OOP_class.htmlThread Previous | Thread Next