Perl is worse!

[Steve Lamb]

On 28 Jul 2000 15:37:05 -0400, David Bolen <db3l at fitlinxx.com> wrote:
>In the case here it seems as if you don't really want to define the
>name and associate it with nothing, you want to define the name and
>associate it with an object that will support being appended to.  In

    Will this work if the decision is to make it a string, not a list?

>Or conversely, you could be asking to really have no definition for a,
>but have the language implicitly create a new object upon your first
>attempt to use an ".append" method - something which I don't think is
>really either intuitive or something that works in the general case
>for an object oriented model.

    Hmmm, I see your point there.

>(Oh, and as an aside - this is an impressive thread - even with the
>few warts, I think there's useful information going on)

    Agreed.  I know I'm prolly coming off as a newbie troll but I am learning
things and I really do mean it when I say I don't want to see the language
changed, just expressing an opinion.

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