On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 3:44 AM, Luca Ferrari <fluca1...@infinito.it> wrote:
> this will sound trivial, but the following piece of code that in my
> mind should work does not:
>
> $mode = 'csv' if ( ! $mode.defined || %available_modes{ $mode }:!exists );
>
> and the compiler says:
>
> You can't adverb &infix:<||>
>
You want the adverb to be on the postcircumfix; parenthesize the
expression. IIRC this was considered the least bad alternative out of an
ambiguous parse (i.e. which operation does the adverb apply to?).
$mode = 'csv' if ( ! $mode.defined || (%available_modes{ $mode
}:!exists) );
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