Original post not very clear. So here goes again:
First statement (below) says: dot forms of adverbs eliminated.
Second appears to say: adverb form is translated to dot form.
Richard Hainsworth wrote:
But I recently read this on irc:
2009-03-12
23:16 pugs_svn r25809 | lwall++ | This decrease in consistency
on the syntactic level is offset by an
23:16 pugs_svn r25809 | lwall++ | increase in consistency on the
semantic level, as suggested by rouso++.
23:16 pugs_svn r25809 | lwall++ | (We'd already gotten rid of
the dot forms of adverbs some time ago,
23:16 pugs_svn r25809 | lwall++ | for similar reasons. We just
didn't quite carry the idea through.)
and then read this:
S03 Changes to Perl5 Operators
...
if $filename ~~ :e { say "exists" }
is the same as
if $filename.e { say "exists" }
The 1st form actually translates to the latter form, so the object's
class decides how to dispatch methods.
Is there an inconsistency here?
