On 6/15/05, Tassilo von Parseval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> so it's not that the current behaviour should be such a surprise to an
> experienced user. For me it's mostly an aesthetic question really. Do we
> want this couple:
>
> print $x +$y; # means: $x + $y
> print { $x } +$y;
>
> or rather this one:
>
> print $x +$y; # means: print { $x } +$y;
> print $x + $y;
>
> The second one is visually less offending. Futhermore, there is no
> style-guide I know of that suggests using a space before a binary
> operator but not after it. Perl should make such ugliness as hard to
> employ as possible.
I'm with Schwern. The first one is the only logical scenario.
print $x +$y; # should mean $x + $y always
print $x $y; # should mean print { $x } $y
since the latter is legal and the recommended way to write to a
lexical filehandle making the former a synonym for it seriously
violates the principle of least surprise. Also taking this approach
the docs become correct again i think.
yves
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