On Wednesday 25 April 2001 18:33, Edward Peschko wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:30:37PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:38:50PM -0700, Brent Dax wrote: > > > IMHO, . can DWIM in most cases even if it's both object deref > > > _and_ concat--without paying any attention to whitespace. > > > > Please, no. Some of us have to *teach* this language. > > Then I guess that either space sensitive '.' is the answer, or '_'. I > personally prefer the space sensitive '.' because it is compatible > with perl5, and I think people would have less difficulty with it > even if it was doing double duty in the language. And its visually > easy to spot the difference between the two constructs. '.' is already, to some extent, space sensitive anyway, because it has to pull double duty as a decimal point, as well. '4.5' (4.5) vs '4 .5' (45) vs '4. 5' (missing operator) -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Dot can DWIM without whitespace Brent Dax
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Dave
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Stephen P. Potter
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Simon Cozens
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Edward Peschko
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Nathan Torkington
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Paul Johnson
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Edward Peschko
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Bryan C . Warnock
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Edward Peschko
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Simon Cozens
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Edward Peschko
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Michael G Schwern
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Bryan C . Warnock
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Edward Peschko
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Buddha Buck
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Casey West
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Edward Peschko
- Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace Michael G Schwern