Says belg4mit:
6. [ <> globbing was a bad idea ] Why? Implementation, or too much for one operator?
Too much semantics on one piece of notation. If Larry hadn't
unnecessarily overloaded <> to do globbing,
then you would be able to write
@array_of_fhs = ...;
my $line = <$array_of_fhs[37]>;
Which you can't presently do, and which frequently
trips people up. Without the glob overloading,
this would have meant just what it appears to.
--
Mark Dominus
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