Well I'm not sure if I'm going to change your mind but I think there's a lot of reaons to change the notation. I don't think you can pick any one reason and have it stand on it's own.

There's quite a bit that's changing with respect to array/hash refs and changing how they are accessed fits into that. It could be done withtout changing -> to . but with the other reasons, it fits. From Exegesis 2: 

        Access through...       Perl 5          Perl 6
        =================       ======          ======
        Scalar variable         $foo            $foo
        Array variable          $foo[$n]        @foo[$n]
        Hash variable           $foo{$k}        %foo{$k}
        Array reference         $foo->[$n]      $foo[$n] (or $foo.[$n]
+)
        Hash reference          $foo->{$k}      $foo{$k} (or $foo.{$k}
+)
        Code reference          $foo->(@a)      $foo(@a) (or $foo.(@a)
+)
        Array slice             @foo[@ns]       @foo[@ns]
        Hash slice              @foo{@ks}       %foo{@ks}

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Now other reasons..
1) To me dot notation will be much less cluttered than -> when you have a lot of complex data structures and OO structures that go fairly deep. Using Perl for little over a year, my biggest complaint with the language is just how ugly the code gets when you deal with complex data structures and OO. I think dot notation will help.

3) It really doesn't need to be used for derefrencing, just for OO.

2) Just about every other language that supports OO uses dot notation (could be all, but I'm covering my bases). It takes away a reason not to use Perl.

3)Perl is going to have much better OO functionality. It's not just going to be something that's hacked on top of what's already there (like now).

4) It's one less character

And you probably still don't like it. Maybe because I haven't been around that language that long, but I personally like the change. In a year or so, I'd bet it's no longer an issue.

Rich

In reply to Re: Perl6 headaches? by rchiav
in thread Perl6 headaches? by mattg

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