Several of the differences between Perl5 and Perl6 are
intended to reduce the amount of dereferencing you have
to do. So I like thinking of this syntax change as just
being Yet Another way of indicating to people that you
are supposed to be thinking in terms of more immediate
data structures and less about having a reference that
you dereference.
YMMV, but that is true to the usage of both . and ->
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I'm not sure I follow this. The dot is ugly, but it's not like it
inherently discourages you from using it. In fact, it could be said "->"
is better for that purpose: more letters to type. (And 3 times more keys!)
Plus, you have to use it for objects, unless you want to encourage 'indirect
object' syntax.
-- Frag.
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In C accessing a struct directly is done with a ".", but
accessing a struct through a reference is done with an
"->". So to my eyes the arrow says "indirected through
a reference.
YMMV.
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Well I'm glad somebody pointed this out.
It isn't to emulate Java, VB or SmallTalk so much as to
make the code cleaner and easier to parse. Admittedly I'm
attached to the existing arrow operator but I can get used
to using a dot instead.
There are more important battles to fight. That's such a minor one.
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