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Postings from May 2001
First off, before I forget to mention it, nice job on Apoc2 Larry! You are the man. I know alot of us on p6l can seem like harsh critics at times, but it's only because we love Perl so much. ;-) Anyways, in addition to the $file.next stuff, I'm curious about a few clarifications on the new semantics of arrays and hashes. Overall it looks outstanding. I'm interested in what happens with interactions: $a = @b; Does this: 1. Get the length (doesn't seem to make sense now) 2. Pull a reference to @b (like Perl5's "$a = \@b") 3. Get the first element of @b Similarly, how about: %c = @d; Does this: 1. Create a hash w/ alternating keys/vals like Perl5 2. Do the equivalent of "%c = \@d" in Perl5 3. Or the mystery meat behind Door #3 Also, I like the *@b prototype slurping idea a lot, but I do worry about potential confusion with the @*b special class notation. I'm wondering if the latter can't be @::b? -NateThread Next