Re^2: Commonly accepted style guide?

[Anonymous Monk]

in reply to Re: Commonly accepted style guide?
in thread Commonly accepted style guide?

If I see @n[$i] I get very worried.

I don't. It's about time we got rid of that warning. It's going to be the right syntax in perl6, it's doing the right thing in perl5, and considering that:

    @n[$i,$j,$k,$l]
    @n[$i,$j,$k]
    @n[$i,$j]

return 4, 3, and 2 element slices - the use of @n[$i] isn't unnatural at all. Its a one element slice. And what does a slice in scalar context return? It's last element. Which, obviously, is $n[$i].

So, I think in this case that Perl should act perlish, and shut up and DWIM (which it is doing already). And not whine and pretent to be Java or Python.

[sauoq]

I don't.

Perhaps you should. Here's one example (paraphrased from real life) of how it can get ugly...

#!/usr/bin/perl
$\=$/;
@n[0] = localtime;
$n[1] = localtime;
print for @n;