Define potentially dire results. :)

I only see this becoming a problem if you didn't think out your code before hand and just slopped everything in (which I do quite frequently btw). Having this new feature in the language wouldn't necessarily mean that everyone would use it, but it would guarantee yet another jump in the flexibility that perl is known for!

I see your point on assignment of the lhs vs. rhs, but I would assume that if a new datatype were created for this purpose, error handling would be done in quite a different manner. Maybe even set a new readonly variable! (has $^Y been reserved yet?)

I keep referencing back to spreadsheets (especially Excel) every time I look at the examples and alternatives everyone posted. It seems alot of monks were quite antipathetic about this idea, but then again I don't know anyone that uses all of the funtions in perl.

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# Trust no1!

In reply to RE: RE: RE: RE: Re: Dreaming of Post Interpolation by BBQ
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