On Jun 15, Rafael Garcia-Suarez said:
No. Perl's parser could be smarter (notably for the C<f $x +$y> syntax
error I quoted earlier), but I really want something like:
print $fh -$value;
to do what I meant, whithout forcing me to put ugly {} in there. OK,
maybe my brain was irradiated due to a too long exposure to the
internals of perl's parser, but the above print statement is perfectly
clear to me, and probably exists in a lot of real code.
Well, you could do
print $fh (-$value);
which uses not-so-ugly-() and in a location that probably makes more sense
to the casual reader.
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