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If it is carefully designed, it should prove to be useful just like it has in Raku. I don't see how it can be designed well enough. The fundamental problem is
by chromatic 7y ago
If it is carefully designed, it should prove to be useful just like it has in Raku.
I don't see how it can be designed well enough. The fundamental problem is that Perl operators are monomorphic and variables are polymorphic. This was the same problem for things like keys and each on references, for example.
- b2gills 7y agoI didn't mean in Perl. If you actually read what I wrote, you'll note that everything I said makes it a difficult to impossible in Perl. I meant adding the feature to Rust, which doesn't have the same difficulties.