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From:
Ricardo Signes
Date:
August 15, 2013 18:20
Subject:
Re: postfix dereference syntax
Message ID:
20130815181955.GA13939@cancer.codesimply.com
* Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> [2013-08-15T13:42:23]
> It still escapes me why @* was chosen instead of the much more logical
> [] :

So: ->[] means "the array"
But ->[1,2,3] means "the slice" (a list)
And so ->[()] means "the slice of no elements (an empty list)

It's bound to cause painful confusion.

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rjbs
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