"Griffith, Shaun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Abigail wrote:
>>> What am I missing?
>>
>>
>>What you are missing is the new white space rule:
>>
>> \s+{ }
>>
>>shall be always be a block. Hence the difference between
>>"%hash {foo}" and "%hash{foo}".
>
> So I take it readability is deprecated?
>
> For instance:
>
> $some_nested_hash{very_long_descriptive_key}{another_key}...{last_key}
>
> can no longer be broken into multiple lines, like this?
>
> $some_nested_hash{very_long_descriptive_key}
> {another_key}
> ...
> {last_key}
I *think* you can't do that as written. However, you can disambiguate
with
%some_nested_hash{very_long_descriptive_key}
.{another_key}
...
.{last_key}
The '.' operator is optional in cases where there's no ambiguity, when
you have intervening spaces things start to get ambiguous, so use an
explicit '.'
--
Piers
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
-- Jane Austen?
