On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Brad Baxter <bmb@mail.libs.uga.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Brad Baxter <bmb@mail.libs.uga.edu> > wrote: > > > > > > I do wish we could do without the trailing asterisk, but I appreciate > that the choices are limited. I wish these worked > > > > ->[] > > ->{} > > ->$ > > > > What's the chance we might just reverse the arrow for postfix dereference? > > perl -e > > '$x<-@' > perl -e > > '$x<-@[1,2]' > perl -e > > '$x<-@[0..10]' > perl -e > > '$x<-%' > perl -e > > '$x<-%{"x","y"}' > perl -e > > '$x<- > $' > > > All of the above give syntax errors. > > Brad > > But, of course, these are not errors ... perl -e '$x<-$x' perl -e '$x<-@x' perl -e '$x<-%x' S o maybe it'd have to be this: perl -e '$x<-@[]' perl -e '$x<-@[1,2]' perl -e '$x<-@[0..10]' perl -e '$x<-%{}' perl -e '$x<-%{"x","y"}' perl -e '$x<-${}' BradThread Previous | Thread Next