uh... '->' is used as a dereferencer also, but I also dereference my code as
so..
$value = $$ref2hash{'key'};
@slice = @$ref2array[0 .. 2];
I really need to find the time to read the Articles but between work and
taxes....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chas Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:55 AM
> To: Timothy Johnson
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: perl6
>
>
> On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 10:39, Timothy Johnson wrote:
> >
> > At the risk of beating a dead and bloated horse, I have no
> doubt that I will
> > enjoy and take advantages of the improvements in Perl6, but
> I still don't
> > see the logic in changing operators. I mean, why make old
> code unusable?
> > If you can make a Perl5->6 converter, why can't you
> integrate Perl5 code
> > into Perl6? Like I said, I have no doubt that I will use
> the many new
> > features of Perl6 and enjoy them, but I think that sums up
> a lot of the gut
> > reactions of people that I have spoken to.
> >
> <snip />
>
> Okay, on the walk into work this morning I thought of another
> reason why
> the operators are changing: Huffman encoding. The reason Perl looks
> like line noise to many people is because the language tries
> to save the
> programmer keystrokes for commonly used things. With that in mind I
> wrote a quick script and through all of the perl code in my home
> directory at it to find out how often I use '->' vs '.' in
> Perl 5. The
> results came to about 7 to 1 in favor of '->'. According to the rules
> of Huffman encoding that means that '->' should be shorter than '.'.
> Add on to that the fact that '.' is used by most languages to mean
> "member of" and you have a no-brainer. Now, I use hash
> references like
> water so YMMV.
>
> <script>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -ln
>
> $arrow += /->/g;
> $period += /\./g;
>
> END {
> print "arrows occured $arrow times";
> print "periods occured $period times";
> }
> </script>
>
> <output>
> arrows occured 1263 times
> periods occured 173 times
> </output>
>
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