"Keith Maika" <slick@aoeex.com> wrote in message
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> Agelmar wrote:
> > Louis-Philippe Huberdeau wrote:
> >
> ...
> >
> > I seem to recall that they were proposing eliminating indexing into a
string
> > via $somestring[$index], going for instead $somestring{$index} or
something
> > of that nature. Do you recall if that was implemented?
> >
> > // Ian
> >
> >
>
> That has been done for a long time. Maybe they are finally going to
> remove support for $something[$index] but it's been in the manual for
> quite some time that they do not want you do use that syntax, and rather
> $something{$index} should be used.

Hmm... personally, I much prefer $something[$index] as it's closer to C, and
just feels more natural :-) No idea why they changed it $string{$index}
just feels like a concatenation of $string and $index... I mean come on,
you're indexing into the string, why drop the array subscripting? gah...