On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 05:15:15PM +0000, Smylers wrote: > Abigail writes: > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 05:18:45PM +0100, Juerd wrote: > > > > > But the following set of wishes clashes heavily: > > > > > > - () can be used for grouping (to override precedence) > > > - () can be used to enclose subroutine arguments > > > - subroutines can also be used without () > > > > Perl5 had no problem coping with those rules > > Yes it does. Perl 5 suffers that this does what many people expect: > > print 6 * (3 + 4); > > but this does not: > > print (3 + 4) * 6; > > It is treated as: > > (print 3 + 4) * 6; > > That's hateful!
No, it's not. If you had it your way,
print sqrt (9) + sqrt (49)
would print '4' and not '10'. I doubt many people would expect it to print 4.
Abigail
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