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From:
Aristotle Pagaltzis
Date:
June 11, 2013 01:07
Subject:
Re: key/value hash and index/valuse array slices syntax
Message ID:
20130611010721.GA6226@fernweh.plasmasturm.org
* David Nicol <davidnicol@gmail.com> [2013-06-10 01:55]:
> one of the perl6 RFCs suggested allowing a regex as a hash index
>
>    @hash{/REGEX/}
>
> to mean
>
>   @hash{ grep /REGEX/, keys %hash }
>
> I have no idea how well-received that suggestion was

This proposal is an idle thought, Ruslan’s proposal is a patch, and the
two are completely orthogonal. This idea should go in a separate thread.
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