Tom Christiansen wrote: > > But mostly it's better without them. People would want > things like @a + @b to behave differently. And then we'd > get to argue about @a * @b. Matrix math! To paraphrase someone famous, "We have to let Fortran be better at something." :-) -- John Porter "There are people who have fun studying the C++ spec for literally seconds on end, I'm sure..." John Vlissides ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe