1. I almost wish subroutines required the use of the ampersand sigil. I hate looking at barewords in Perl, and much prefer things to have punctuation in front so the editor picks it up with a specified color.
2. I learned, the very, very hard way. That the way to do XS with C++ is to use XSPP. http://search.cpan.org/~mbarbon/ExtUtils-XSpp-0.15/lib/ExtUtils/XSpp.pod I cried a little when I saw this. But, I'm incredibly thankful that it exists, even though they're a bit under the radar.
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Two schools of thought here: If function calls required the & sigil, then:
ReplyDelete* the only barewords would be Perl keywords, and that
would make adding new keywords much much much easier
* the only barewords would be Perl keywords, and that
would make adding new keyword-alike functions much
much much harder
The former is easily placated by 'use feature'.
The latter is motivated by Try::Tiny, Moose, various functions with prototypes in List::Util, List::MoreUtils, List::UtilsBy,...
Check out http://steffen-mueller.net/talks/xspp/, too. --Steffen
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