Re: Revision of A12's lookahead notions

2004-08-17 Thread David Storrs
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:07:59AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > > 2) In the absence of evidence to the contrary, methods always > assume they have *no* arguments. For methods: > > 2a) A method not followed by a left paren or colon has no > arguments. Just checking--whitespace

Re: Revision of A12's lookahead notions

2004-08-17 Thread Smylers
David Storrs writes: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:07:59AM -0700, Larry Wall wrote: > > > 2) In the absence of evidence to the contrary, methods always > > assume they have *no* arguments. For methods: > > > > 2a) A method not followed by a left paren or colon has no > > argument

Re: Revision of A12's lookahead notions

2004-08-17 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 06:02:13PM +, Smylers wrote: : David Storrs writes: : > Just checking--whitespace doesn't count, right? : > : > foo(1,2,3);# Func with 3 args : > foo (1,2,3); # Same exact thing : : You quote Larry's text about methods, then give an example using : functi

Re: Revision of A12's lookahead notions

2004-08-17 Thread chromatic
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 12:54, Larry Wall wrote: > But we'll just have to shoot anyone who makes a wisecrack like: > > use parens :lisp; Surely that should have its own pragma: use parenths; -- c