Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace

[Bryan C . Warnock]

On Wednesday 25 April 2001 18:33, Edward Peschko wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:30:37PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:38:50PM -0700, Brent Dax wrote:
> > > IMHO, . can DWIM in most cases even if it's both object deref
> > > _and_ concat--without paying any attention to whitespace.
> >
> > Please, no. Some of us have to *teach* this language.
>
> Then I guess that either space sensitive '.' is the answer, or '_'. I
> personally prefer the space sensitive '.' because it is compatible
> with perl5, and I think people would have less difficulty with it
> even if it was doing double duty in the language. And its visually
> easy to spot the difference between the two constructs.

'.' is already, to some extent, space sensitive anyway, because it has 
to pull double duty as a decimal point, as well.

'4.5' (4.5) vs '4 .5' (45) vs '4. 5' (missing operator)

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Bryan C. Warnock
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