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Postings from May 2001
Dan Sugalski writes: > I dunno. Color me unconvinced--I do use the <> enough in non-while context > (and in non-implied while context) to make the whole idea of next feel > rather... nasty. And $FOO.next? Yuck. Reading lines/records in is one of > the most fundamental things one can do in a computer language (especially > perl) and having to jump through OO hoops to do simple things just feels > like a step in the wrong direction. Conceptual elegance and orthogonality > are nice enough, but we have enough of those languages. (If I wanted > Eiffel, I know where to find it) Amen. /acy