It's important to point out that inside metaoperators ("composed
operators", "combined operators", ...) the [ ] are just for bracketing
things together — sometimes it's needed to disambiguate, but you can put
it in anyway to make things clearer.This has nothing to do with [+] 1, 2, 3, which is a way to spell "add these three numbers together". On 05/10/2018 14:26, Brad Gilbert wrote: > Note that = is actually a meta operator that can take an infix > operator as an argument > > So > > $a += 1 > > is really short for > > $a [+]= 1 > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 1:02 AM Todd Chester <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 10/4/18 12:13 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: >>> It's fine syntactically, but I think has no effect because it'd be '$v = >>> $v' after the '+|='. Conceivably some future version of rakudo could >>> warn about it having no effect. >> That explains it. Thank you!
