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Postings from September 2002
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 17:27, John Williams wrote: > If I understand our non-conclusions so far, we're waiting for Larry to > clarify: > > 1) how to create a 1-tuple/1-item list? > > 2) how to interpret the flattened list context? e.g. given this: > > > $x = (1,2,3); > > @y = (1,2,3); > > $z = [1,2,3]; > > push @a, $x, @y, $z, (1,2,3), [1,2,3]; > > What flattens, what doesn't, and how do you override the behavior? Mostly I'm interested in the fact that () and [] now do exactly the same thing, except that Perl 6 ()s can't create one-element lists. Given that, ()s are just being wasted, syntacticly speaking, on backward compatibility with Perl 5. I'd like to know if there's any chance of our breaking with that backward compatibility. Once again, just waiting for Larry to come back. I'm not really very interested in pursuing this debate further until I find out what caveats he may already be planning on introducing. Once that's in place, I have a whole slew of questions regarding []s that I think people will find interesting. -- Aaron Sherman <ajs@ajs.com>