On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 03:35:39PM -0400, John Porter wrote:
> Yes, but it's hard to read. Lisp requires parens, because it
> has no precedence rules. (Well, hardly any). It has (almost)
> no other syntax. This is the situation we would like to avoid
> in perl. By letting every operator have well-defined precedence,
> and every be function well prototyped, there should never be any
> ambiguity (to the compiler, at least) as to what is meant, even
> with no parens. Ideally, anyway.
Perl is English-like. And sometimes in English parentheses *are* necessary to
increase both meaning and readability, as your own message proves.
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