Is there any worse indictment of Perl than the length of the doc which explains how to put an array in another array http://perldoc.perl.org/perldsc.html
Why can't Perl implicitly dereference array and hash references. Then we could kill the @ and % sigils forever and move on with our lives
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perldsc is ~16 pages long, in "Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes" I was able to cover the same material in ~4 http://qntm.org/files/perl/perl.html#refs …
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For comparison, in other P-languages the equivalent documentation is a one-liner, such as "arr[0] = ['a', 'b', 'c'];"
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@qntm Suppose that is not a rhetorical question, the answer is backward compatibility with Perl 4. -
@mjdominus It wasn't rhetorical but I figured there had to be some deeply-rooted technical reasons why it was impossible - 2 more replies
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@qntm perl without sigils sounds a lot like a brain damaged ruby •_• -
@___winston You'd still have one sigil, the dollar sign. - 6 more replies
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