The counts[input.Text()]++ construct looks pretty familiar, like a hash autovivification in Perl. Was this idea taken from Perl and put into Go?

I've used that trick in MUMPS, too. And I would be quite surprised to be the first one using it in MUMPS, given its decades of history. I did not find that trick in code by the interpreter's manufacturer (Micronetics), and neither did I find it in code written by my ex-coworkers. But yes, I stole the trick from Perl. In fact, my MUMPS code looked a lot like Perl, but with a different kind of "line noise".

Alexander

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In reply to Re: Does Go steal from Perl? :-) by afoken
in thread Does Go steal from Perl? :-) by reisinge

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