On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:49:33PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:38:59PM -0400, John Macdonald wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:10:18PM -0700, Larry Wall wrote:
> > > The current consensus on #perl6 is that, in postfix position only (that
> > > is, with no leading whitespace), m:p/\.+ \s<ws> <before \.>/ lets you
> > > embed
> > > arbitrary whitespace, comments, pod, etc, within the postfix operator.
> > >
> >
> > The one quibble I see with this is that postfix <one or more
> > dots, including 3> might be a touch confusing with infix<exactly
> > 3 dots> (i.e. the yada operator).
>
> There isn't an infix:<...> operator. There's
> term:<...> ("yada yada yada"), and there's
> postfix:<...> ("$x..Inf").
Hmm, yep I got the terminology wrong, but my point remains -
one operator that is "...", exactly 3 dots, and another that
can be "..." but can be spelled with a different number of
dots if you feel like it, is somewhat confusing.
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