Re: Perl 6 - Operator renaming

PHP also uses -> for method calls, and although it is looking more and more like Java, AFAIK they aren't going to drop $foo->bar()

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Re^2: Perl 6 - Operator renaming by blazar (Canon) on Sep 02, 2005 at 16:14 UTC
However Perl6 will need it for another purpose, i.e. for "pointy subs", which may be a better choice especially from the huffmanization point of view. Also, do you imagine something like `$bar ->= nextitem;` [download] or `@newstuff = map { ->method } @stuff;` [download] ?!? Speaking of pointy subs and of their parameters, I find it to be quite interesting that the syntax resembles much that of my old faithful HP-28s pocket calculator (HP48*'s one should be practically identical), which happen to be an entirely coincidental fact, as Larry Wall himslef clarified in Re: Q: re C<< -> >>.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: Perl 6 - Operator renaming
by blazar (Canon) on Sep 02, 2005 at 16:14 UTC

$bar ->= nextitem;
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@newstuff = map { ->method } @stuff;
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Speaking of pointy subs and of their parameters, I find it to be quite interesting that the syntax resembles much that of my old faithful HP-28s pocket calculator (HP48*'s one should be practically identical), which happen to be an entirely coincidental fact, as Larry Wall himslef clarified in Re: Q: re C<< -> >>.

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