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Postings from November 2004
Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote: >I like this in general. However... > >Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> wrote: > > >> * Since we already stole angles from iterators, «$fh» is not >> how you make iterators iterate. Instead we use $fh.fetch (or >> whatever) in scalar context, and $fh.fetch or @$fh or $fh[] >> or *$fh in list context. >> >> > >I believe you tried this one a couple years ago, and people freaked >out. As an alternative, could we get a different operator for this? >I propose one of: > > $fh -> > $fh» (and $fh>>) > $fh> > >All three have connotations of "the next thing". The first one might >interfere with pointy subs, though, and the last two would be >whitespace-sensitive. (But it looks like that isn't a bad thing >anymore...) > >Any other suggestions, people? > > ++$fh