Re: What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing?

NOOOO!

I want &-> because it's so understandable. People who haven't seen it would be able to guess what it does. That won't happen with ~> .

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Re^2: What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing? by crashtest (Curate) on Jun 03, 2012 at 16:42 UTC
Interesting - in contrast to your statement, I didn't understand the relevance of the ampersand until the very end of the discussion thread here and found its inclusion in the poll puzzling. I didn't read it as `$bar` AND call method `method()` on `$bar`; instead, I read it as the C "address-of" operator. Goes to show that what may seem understandable and intuitive to one person may not be at all for another.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: What operator should perl5porters use for safe dereferencing? by ambrus (Abbot) on Apr 05, 2013 at 11:14 UTC
I guess you're right, the ampersand isn't so obvious. The problem is, reading the ampersand meaning address of could even make sense in perl. You could want an operator to create a bound method call, so eg. `$object&->method` creates a bound method like `do { my $o = $object; sub { $o->method(@_); } }`, and `$object&&->method` creates a bound method call weakly referencing the object.	[reply] [d/l] [select]