Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5

Re:Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5 by discardorama on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @03:59PM (#8725699)

> "and is joined by the new < > variant for literal strings."

... why? What was wrong with {} or [] , as most other languages do? Sigh.

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Re:Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5 by masak on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @04:32PM (#8725924)

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.

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Re:Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5 by discardorama on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @11:54AM (#8730133)

I dunno, this sounds like syntactic bloat to me.

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Re:Data munging in Perl 6 vs. Perl 5 by elektronjunge on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @01:02PM (#8730606)

Welcome to perl

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