Don't know what you mean ... all my examples were parenthesized so precedence problems shouldn't occur !?!

I mean exactly:

Actually it's practically impossible to implement this with a simple code-filter, (see my first approach) because one can't tell by static parsing where the dereferencing ends ( here the last array-index ) and where to put the closing curly.

In other words, you're arguing to add more syntax to Perl, syntax that's difficult to type, to make the simple cases easy (except that they're more difficult to type) -- except that the syntax doesn't actually make the difficult cases any easier, because either it's ambiguous to parse because of the precedence and associativity of the new dereferencing operator, or you enforce a fixed amount of dereferencing and have to use the existing syntax to isolate and disambiguate the reference.

I won't say that it's impossible to get this to work, but it's going to be very difficult, and the exceptions are probably going to be difficult to understand, and no one's going to use it.

In reply to Re^7: Two more Features Perl 5 Maybe Needs by chromatic
in thread Five Features Perl 5 Needs Now by Arunbear

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