"Warning; old COBOL programmer has escaped" :-)*
On 5/25/17, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev <perl6-bugs-follo...@perl.org> wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev > # Please include the string: [perl #131363] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131363 > > > > Code: > say ‘hello’. > say 42 > > Result: > ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling -e > Two terms in a row > at -e:2 > ------> say⏏ 42 > expecting any of: > infix > infix stopper > postfix > statement end > statement modifier > statement modifier loop > > > This bug report was motivated by this task from thinkperl6 book: > > • What if you put a period at the end of a statement? > > > Arguably, it can probably figure out that . was used instead of ;. The > problem is that . is interpreted as an infix, and therefore it only blows up > when it sees the next occurrence of two terms in a row (or any other issue)… > Not sure if there is any easy way to implement something like this (but a > line ending with a dot should be a good heuristic, no?) >
