Perl's lack of 'in' keyword

Iain Barnett iainspeed at gmail.com
Tue Oct 7 17:50:02 BST 2008


On 7 Oct 2008, at 4:09 pm, Abigail wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:04:11PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote:
>> ... is starting to frustrate me. It's the one feature I am finding  
>> I'm
>> really missing from That Other Language.
>>
>>   if ($bar in @foo) {
>>     # ...
>>   }
>>
>> (Does Perl 6 have it?)
>
>
> Why wait for Perl 6? Perl 5 has had it for almost a year now. It's
> spelled ~~ though.
>

Is there some reason why -- was picked over 'in' ? It just seems to  
pander to those who think perl reads like line noise.


Iain





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