Juerd writes: > Luke Palmer skribis 2005-04-26 9:28 (-0600): > > Labels are pretty easy to pick out. I don't believe there is any other > > thing in the language that, at the beginning of a statement, matches > > /\w+\:/ . They are certainly available in Perl 6 (as are plain old line > > labels; we're not getting rid of goto, to many's dismay (but not mine)). > > Indirect method call on default invocant: > > method: args; > > Quoting: > > qq:to/foo/ ==> say; > s:2nd/foo/bar/; > > The latter can be fixed by requiring \w+:\s+, but the former I think > cannot.
That's true, but the former hasn't been accepted. That's not something I considered when I was thinking about that proposal, but I think it's a fairly minor issue. We'll ignore labels as we continue to weigh that proposal, and redo label syntax later if we must. Luke
