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discardorama
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Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5
> "and is joined by the new < > variant for literal strings."
... why? What was wrong with {} or [] , as most other languages do? Sigh.
masak
on Dec 9, 2014
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The postcircumfix {} is still there, and used. It just unambiguously takes an expression, and doesn't try to intuit string quotes in some cases. So you use {} for indexing with a general expression, and <> for string indexing.
discardorama
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I dunno, this sounds like syntactic bloat to me.
elektronjunge
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... why? What was wrong with {} or [] , as most other languages do? Sigh.