Re: how about just juxtaposing? (Re: Sane "+" string concat proposal)

[Casey West]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:42:10PM +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
: On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:32:39PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
: > Has the road of just putting things next to each other been extensively
: > tried?  It works for Awk...  "juxtapose", the Famous Invisible Perl
: > Operator.
: > 
: >     Perl 5                  Perl 6
: > 
: >     $a = $b . $c;           $a = $b $c;     # or $b$c
: >     $a = "foo".$c;          $a = "foo" $c;  # or "foo"$c
: >     $a = foo . $c;          $a = foo$c;     # foo $c wouldn't work...
: >     $a = $c . foo;          $a = ${c}foo    # (if foo is a function)
: >     $a = foo() . $c;        $a = foo() $c;
: >     $a = $c . foo();        $a = $c foo();
: >     $a = $b->c . $d;        $a = $b->c $d;  # or $b->c$d;
: 
: This is going to make finding syntax errors a bit difficult, as many
: will simply become concatination operators.  Consider....
: 
:         print "Foo"
:         foo("bar");
: 
: Did the author forget a semi-colon, or did they intend to concatinate
: there?  Also, consider this...

Or, did they intend to concatinate 'print' and "Foo" in void context?

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Casey West