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Re: Dots and cargo-cult programmingby jepri (Parson) |
| on Jul 14, 2001 at 18:01 UTC ( [id://96755]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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I don't know that we are necessarily changing to suit VB. What I am sure of is that at first glance, I couldn't tell what the smalltalk code does, but I could tell what the VB stuff did. Ditto when I first started Perl, I had no idea what the arrow did, even though I knew what the dots were in VB and Delphi. Changing to suit the whims of the greater programming community is wrong, but standing firm on small issues is inflexible. I like the -> operator, I think it's neat, but I guess it's time for it to go. And this is Perl. We've been promised a backwards compatibility layer, so your code isn't going to become obselete over night. ____________________
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