Author: autrijus Date: Sun Apr 23 08:02:50 2006 New Revision: 8917 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
Log: * S02: The *() form now means *($/). * Clarified that $() etc are term-level macros. Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Sun Apr 23 08:02:50 2006 @@ -12,9 +12,9 @@ Maintainer: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 10 Aug 2004 - Last Modified: 22 Apr 2006 + Last Modified: 23 Apr 2006 Number: 2 - Version: 29 + Version: 30 This document summarizes Apocalypse 2, which covers small-scale lexical items and typological issues. (These Synopses also contain @@ -603,8 +603,9 @@ All prefix sigil operators accept one positional argument, evaluated in scalar context as a rvalue. They can interpolate in strings if called with -parentheses. The C<$()>, C<@()> and C<%()> forms defaults to C<$/> as the -implicit argument. +parentheses. The special syntax form C<$()> translates into C<$( $/ )> +to operate on the current match object; the same applies to C<@()>, C<%()> and +C<*()> forms. C<Capture> objects fill the ecological niche of references in Perl 6. You can think of them as "fat" references, that is, references that
