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Hi there, On Tue, 7 Jun 2022, Felipe Gasper wrote: > >> On Jun 7, 2022, at 10:19, Dave Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 08:40:52AM +0100, Neil Bowers wrote: >>> In early March last year, I proposed[1] new syntax for "quote words arrayref", >>> so that the following: >>> >>> $a = [qw/ a b c /]; >>> >>> could be replaced with: >>> >>> $a = qa[ a b c ]; >> >> My personal feeling is that that it adds complexity for very little gain. >> If people want an array ref they just wrap the qw() in []'s. It's visually >> obvious then that an array ref is being created. >> >> With qa() you now require programmers to remember another fact. Each >> little fact on its own isn't a great burden, but perl has accumulated >> zillions of such factlets, which cummulatively make perl hard to use. >> >> Now you will have things like >> >> foo(qw(a b c)); >> foo(qa(a b c)); >> >> doing two completely different things, and the programmer may get confused. >> People already find qw() confusing enough - e.g. whether it parses commas; >> now they will have to remember whether qa() obeys the same parsing rules >> as qw(). Etc. > > This remains my own sense, too: the gains in concision this would > facilitate don’t justify the addition of yet another syntactic > variant to a language that already maintains an overabundance of > such. +1 -- 73, Ged.Thread Previous | Thread Next