Damian Conway wrote:
Larry wrote:
> I really prefer the form where .#() looks like a no-op method
> call, and can provide the visual dot for a postfix extender. It
> also is somewhat less likely to happen by accident the #., I
> think. And I think the front-end shape of .# is more
> recognizable as different from #, while #. requires a small
> amount of visual lookahead, and is the same "square" shape on the
> front, and could easily be confused with a normal line-ending
> comment.
I'm not enamoured of the .# I must confess. Nor of the #. either. I
wonder whether we need the dot at all. Or, indeed, the full power
of arbitrary delimiters after the octothorpe.
How committed are we to spaces?
If we impose an adjacent-space requirement on the range operators, we
could just repeat dots endlessly:
given ($x) { when (0 .. 9) {...}}
$obj..............method(); # These line up in proportional font. Sorry.
$newobj........method();
$longobjname.method();
Frankly, I don't line up my method calls like this, so it's not much
of a concern. But I also use spaces around operators, so I'm okay with
my coding style becoming syntax. :)
=Austin
