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On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:47:54PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:15:10PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> > Thanks, applied as change #25808 to bleadperl.
>
> Is this a good opportunity to revisit the other related issue:
> that of @foo->[0] and %foo->{bar}?
>
> Someone (I think it might have been me) added a warning at some
> point, so this now warns "Using an array as a reference is
> deprecated".
>
> In line with Yitzchak's observation about $#{@foo}, the "correct"
> behaviour of @foo->[0] is surely for it to behave like ("".@foo)->[0].
> This is an error under 'use strict', so it would only cause silent
> breakage for non-strict scripts -- and the deprecation warning has
> been in place since 5.8.0.
>
> If there's some sort of consensus that this is the right thing
> to do, I'm happy to look into implementing it.
Turning '@foo->[0]' to mean '("".@foo)->[0]' is going to solve what exactly?
While I agree that it's better to write '$foo[0]' instead of '@foo->[0]',
I doubt anyone writes '@foo->[0]' if they want '("".@foo)->[0]'.
One of the features of Perl is it's DWIM. '@foo->[0]' does what people mean.
I don't see any gain in breaking that.
Abigail
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