In 'C', we have: a = b+++++c;
In Perl, we can have: $a = $b $c; (Parseable as $a = $b operator:spacespace operator:tab operator:spacespace $c;) Oh frabjous day! =Austin --- David Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 10:34 AM, Larry Wall wrote: > > > On the other hand, the current rule for recognizing the *end* of a > > name in the style of operator:=+ is to go till the next whitespace, > > on the assumption that we'll never have (shudder) whitespace > operators. > > Oooh, I nominate whitespace to be the concatenation operator! > > my $foo = $bar $bat; > > ;-) > > David > > -- > David Wheeler AIM: dwTheory > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 15726394 > http://david.wheeler.net/ Yahoo!: dew7e > Jabber: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/