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Or, the non-hardcoded version ...

Which sometimes is handy, sometimes not. In any case, this kind of ugly lookup hashes is no longer needed in Perl 6, as any(*@array) will DWYM.

$isAcceptable{$foo}

You mean %isAcceptable{$foo}. $foo{$bar} is $foo.{$bar} ($foo->{bar} in Perl 5).

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Perl6 syntax being too much complex? How we will teach and read that?!
by TimToady (Parson) on Mar 22, 2004 at 18:00 UTC
    NB: probably your * is redundant, since any() will expect a list.
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      NB: probably your * is redundant, since any() will expect a list.

      I had any(@foo, @bar).length == 3 in mind. Does that need explicit references too @foo and @bar then?

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        I suspect so. any(@options) will be a pretty widespread idiom that we need to support, and I'm leary of autodereferencing an array merely because it's the only argument. I think people will be expecting a flattening context such that any(1,2,3,@many) works.
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