On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 05:13, Daniel Carrera <dcarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 5:27 AM, yary <not....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Daniel Carrera <dcarr...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > So TTIR just means that any two terms must be separated by something,
>> > like
>> > an operator (2+5). Which basically is common sense and I'm actually
>> > surprised to hear that in Perl 5 you could have two terms one after the
>> > other with nothing in between.
>>
>> Very common example from Perl 5:
>> print $filehandle "Here is a line that goes to some file";
>>
>> Note that there is no operator between $filehandle and the string.
>
>
> Thanks. It's funny... I've done that a thousand times and I didn't think of
> it. I just Googled and found the Perl 6 way to print to a file handle:
> $filehandle.print("Hello world\n");
> $filehandle.say("Hello world");
snip
[Indirect object][1] notation is still in Perl 6; it just got an
unambiguous syntax:
print $filehandle: "Hello world";
[1]: http://perlcabal.org/syn/S12.html#line_274
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