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
> 
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