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* David Golden <xdaveg@gmail.com> [2009-08-21 13:40]: > If I had to sum up my view, I want -OReadability. I appreciate > that you've worked through the semantics for LHS and RHS, but > I think the syntactic direction is wrong for Perl 5. (E.g. I'd > like to combat the "line noise" meme, not fuel it.) Fully agreed. I feel this is too Perl 6ish. Perl 6 is non-flattening by default and offers the splat for explicit flattening; Perl 5 is flattening by default and offers the reference backslash for explicit preservation. Arguably, this denies control of various kinds to the user, so explicit flattening turns out to be a better overall idea. But it cannot be retroduced to Perl 5 without a significant hit to the conceptual coherence of the language. Let’s not try to mix the two. It’s a good idea to take cues from the conceptual work in Perl 6, Perl 5 has too much baggage to water it down further by porting over the semantics along with the concepts. Let’s try to transliterate the Perl 6 concepts into the existing Perl 5 semantics instead. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>Thread Previous | Thread Next