>>>>> "LW" == Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LW> On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:05:28PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: LW> : LW> : splurt + 1 # same?? LW> : LW> : splurt +1 # work on +1?? LW> : LW> : so how do the 2 above get parsed? the space between + and 1 looks alike LW> : a 0-ary splurt but the +1 could be 0-ary added to 1 or unary with +1 as LW> : its arg. this could mean a form of white space sensitivity. LW> That's the sort of whitespace dependency we're trying to avoid now. LW> So those both mean splurt(+1). I suppose the first form could be LW> made to spit a warning since it's probably a mistake. But it's no LW> worse than the situation in Perl 5 in that regard where you have to LW> write splurt() + 1 if that's what you mean. i have no issue with splurt() being needed to disambiguate. i just wanted to see your take (this week :) on it as i felt the table was ambiguous so far. as far as making it a warning, wouldn't that make the warning space sensitive? :-/ uri -- Uri Guttman ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs ---------------------------- http://jobs.perl.org
