On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 12:53:03PM -0700, Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
> Autrijus Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In S06's Currying section, there are some strange looking examples:
> >
> > &textfrom := &substr.assuming(:str($text) :len(Inf));
> >
> > &textfrom := &substr.assuming:str($text):len(Inf);
> >
> > &woof ::= &bark:(Dog).assuming :pitch<low>;
> >
> > Why is it allowed to omit comma between adverbial pairs, and even
> > omit parens around method call arguments? Is .assuming a special form?
>
> Isn't this just another form of the syntactic rule that gives us
> @array.grep:{ ... } ?
I thought that only applies to adverbial blocks, not arbitary
adverbial (named) pairs. Hm, S04 uses this:
leave :from(Loop) :label<LINE> <== 1,2,3;
So maybe this is as intended? (If so, tests welcome. :-))
Thanks,
/Autrijus/
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