Re: RFC 177 (v1) A Natural Syntax Extension For ChainedReferences

Peter Scott wrote:
> 
> >Having the
> >indices in one place saves a lot of characters. Compare
> >
> >         $r->{{qw(a b c d e f g h)}}
> >
> >versus
> >
> >         $r->{a}->{b}->{c}->{d}->{e}->{f}->{g}->{h}
> 
> But I would compare it to
> 
>         $r->{a}{b}{c}{d}{e}{f}{g}{h}
> 
> which is only one character longer than the proposal...


	$r->{a..h}

(if we drop counting array elements inside container lookup braces)
in p5 the above resolves to $r->{8}  no, it's $r->{@{\(a..h)}} because
of the context-based overloading of dotdot -- so to make $$r{a..h}
work we would need to both allow an array in container resolution brackets
to mean sequential access but also make that an array context.  But
using dot-dot in there is awfully contrived.


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