text_combined: scott walters hmigvslowassnet 0 gerard goossen wrote agree dereference syntax sometimes bit cumbersome toying ideas resolve something like perl6context hard would make push actually work reference asking worked perl6contexts pushing scalar doesnt make sense automatically dereference array ditto keys hashrefs one things want make sigil change ie c foo foobar instead c foo foobar perl 6isms make back old code better dont much like idea automatic dereferences think would unclear dereferencing happens happen thus errorprone drat x z 1 2 3 might asking lot overloading builtin functions seems well much ask instances see unclear defined perl 6 clarify semantics one thing xmath patch grammar shorthand way writing xblurgh xblurgh proposed list time ago addition perl 5 ultimately rejected various reasons none technical fine makes perl 5 oo standard oo deal slightly less annoying sub foo self shift selfx get real tired typing selfx currently valid term expected operator could done without breaking stuff really like gab stuff id much rather im detracting people working things maybe list care listscpanorg crosspost announcements requestforcomments regards scott wed 06 aug 2008 124332 0700 kurila 14 released featuring compilation subroutines