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From:
Larry Wall
Date:
May 4, 2005 06:07
Subject:
Re: reduce metaoperator
Message ID:
20050504130650.GC2741@wall.org
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:00:46AM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote:
: That said, let me try to be helpful, and not just complain:
:
: $sum = (+) @array;
:
: I've not thought through all of the implications to the parser, but I
: think this works, and it certainly ends up looking very mnemonic for
: what you're trying to do!
It's certainly one of the ones I considered, along with all the other
brackets, and |+|, plus variants It just seemed like it'd be a little
visually confusing where you want to turn the list op into a function
$sum = (+)(@array);
But maybe that's not a problem. But there are other potential
ambiguities besides visual, I suspect.
Larry
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