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On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:02 AM, David Golden <xdg@xdg.me> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote:
> > expr->[]
> > $a->[1,5,7]
>
> This is even more attractive to me when considered together with
> normal element access:
>
> $array->[]; # dereference
> $array->[$i]; # single element
> $array->[@list]; # array slice
>
> $hash->{}; # dereference
> $hash->{$n}; # single element
> $hash->{@list}; # hash slice
>
What's the output of
sub f { say wantarray || 0 }
$array->[ f() ]
$hash->{ f() }
Right now, it's 0 0, so the following aren't backwards compatible:
$array->[@list]
$hash->{@list}
It bugs me slightly that [] and {} look "empty" when in fact they
>
return everything
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