Re: Perl oddities

in reply to Perl oddities

Disambiguation messes with me. Once you have found something wonky, you put a + somewhere and Perl gets what you mean. Why a plus-sign?? I'm not adding a left-squiggly to shift when I do

sub foo {
    my $self = shift;
    $self->{+shift} = 3;
    return $self;
}
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Also, while we're talking about prototypes, why do some internals prototype and others don't? Can't the prototype for vec() look at how many elements there are in the array before bitching at me? And, I have to override CORE::GLOBAL::vec to eliminate the prototype. Overriding CORE::vec, even in a BEGIN block, isn't good enough. (Can you tell I don't like Perl's prototypes in any form?)

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