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From:
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
Date:
August 15, 2013 19:31
Subject:
Re: postfix dereference syntax
Message ID:
20130815203108.07bc0b3e@shy.leonerd.org.uk
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 14:19:55 -0400
Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote:

> * 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)

At one time the idea was 

  ->[*]

as a sortof "whatever-star" idea borrowed from Perl6. What happened to
that recently?

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