Re: Perl 6.x , please offer PREPEND as well as APPEND

"Mr P" <MisterPerl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Damian, Larry, et al:
>
> The asymetric PREPEND and APPEND should be addressed in 6.x:
>
> # append a string, very nice
> $song .= ' Her Majesty The Queen';
>
> # prepend a string - YUK, ugly, [1]
> $song = ' Her Majesty The Queen ' . $song;

Not only ugly, but also slow if $song is large. You can use the
four argument substr to (potentially) make it faster, but then it is
even uglier.

But I don't see a tremdous need for a new operator here. If you are doing
a lot of prepending, chances are you are doing something wrong, I'd think.

Xho

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