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Postings from May 2001
Larry Wall wrote:
>
> Why should it be deprecated?
>
> Oh, are you wondering because I said ...
What about array and hash accesses starting with scalar-indicators?
I guess it is easy to misread A2 to mean that not only will
scalar(@trucks[5])
return the sixth truck, but
$trucks[5]
will no longer work.
The fact that in p5,
($sixthtruck) = @trucks[5];
already does that may have been lost to many.
That (mis, I sincerely hope)reading is in my perception the core
of the subsequent flurry of worries about A Whole New Language.
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David Nicol 816.235.1187 dnicol@cstp.umkc.edu
# die smiling;
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