Re: Apoc2 - concerns

[Larry Wall]

Simon Cozens writes:
: On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 02:47:19PM -0400, John Porter wrote:
: > Not that there are any such people.  Yet.
: 
: Indeed. And I suspect that the first Perl 6 programmers are Perl 5
: programmers, who know damned well what "next FOO" means.

Well, it's certainly the case that "next" by itself has to infer a much
different "object" than, say, "length" by itself.  I don't think
anybody is going to argue with you that "next" has to be treated
specially.  My original point was merely that the parser could be
parsing it that way, not that it didn't have extraordinary semantics
once parsed.  The exception would be at the semantic binding level,
not at the parsing level.  That's all.

Larry