Re: syntactic sugar for imports and exports

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
>  local foo, bar, zig <- tbl
>  local foo, bar, zig = tbl.foo, tbl.bar, tbl.zig

Very nice notation!

>  tbl -< foo, bar, zig

The 'syringe operator' is great naming.

I suppose the chief obstacle to adoption is that this is fairly
specialized sugar, and not keyword-driven.

Another option for injection-syntax for modules would be something like this:

return { @foo, @bar, @zig }

or

return { foo=@, bar=@, zig=@ }

 (becomes return { foo = foo, bar = bar, zig = zig } which is common
also in other contexts)

However, weird sigils have usually been frowned upon, because of the
old fear-of-Perl.

steve d.