Re: Captures: Synopsis update

2006-09-21 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 9/21/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A method never takes arguments unless you use : or (), so those are all infix. Well, all righty then. Yay for unambiguity! Or disambiguation. Or nonambiguosity. Or whatever... The design team worked Really Hard to get rid of that particula

Re: Captures: Synopsis update

2006-09-21 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:16:26PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote: : Which means that argumentless subroutine calls will presumably be rare : in P6 code, but what about methods? Methods with no arguments (apart : from the invocant) will always be commonplace, and it seems to me that : you have exactly

Re: Captures: Synopsis update

2006-09-21 Thread Mark J. Reed
On 9/21/06, Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : note how the ambiguity of the following are resolved: : : a|$b : a | $b : a |$b : Don't think so. The situation is exactly analogous to: a%$b a % $b a %$b The cultural ambiguity is also being reduced insofar as we're trying

Re: Captures: Synopsis update

2006-09-21 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:29:57AM -0400, Aaron Sherman wrote: : I'll read that as "conversation terminated". The conversation is never terminated. However, every now and then I make feeble attempts to be decisive. :) : Can you please update S03's "Junctive operators" section to note how the :