On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:38:27PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > > On Apr 10, 2008, at 13:29 , John M. Dlugosz wrote: > >I might have misremembered, but i thought labels were followed by a > >colon in Perl 6. A quick scan of the docs... " > > > >It is illegal for a provisional subroutine call to be followed by a > >colon postfix, since such a colon is allowed only on an indirect > >object, > >or a method call in dot form. (It is also allowed on a label when a > >statement is expected.) ... > > The last sentence there implies that a label can exist *without* a > colon.
I think the intent there is to say that a label is only allowed at the start of a statement, not that a label can have a : left off. -ryan
