Re^4: Nested Hash Dereferencing Syntax

I thought of that, but dismissed it. He could have named $( something different if he wanted to use parens for variables, or did "${var}" come later? I figured it had been in Perl from the start due to its parallel in bourne.

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Re^5: Nested Hash Dereferencing Syntax by tilly (Archbishop) on Feb 24, 2009 at 21:21 UTC
I agree that ${...} is certainly originally in Perl because of the familiarity of the syntax in shell. But Perl is willing to change syntax if a new one is clearer - witness the switch from ' to :: as a package separator. But my understanding is that references and most of our dereferencing syntax was added in Perl 5. Which means that backwards compatibility would prevent the $(...) syntax from being introduced after that.	[reply]

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Re^5: Nested Hash Dereferencing Syntax
by tilly (Archbishop) on Feb 24, 2009 at 21:21 UTC

But my understanding is that references and most of our dereferencing syntax was added in Perl 5. Which means that backwards compatibility would prevent the $(...) syntax from being introduced after that.

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