On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:50:12PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
: 
: On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 06:41  PM, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
: >   print $i;       # ILLEGAL; use $STDOUT.print($i) or $i.print (?)
: >   reverse @a;     # ILLEGAL; use @a.reverse;
: >   map {...} @a;   # ILLEGAL; use @a.map({...});
: >   sort {...} @a;  #
: >   keys %h;        # ...etc...
: 
: (And yes, I'm aware that (1 <= N <= 5) of those are going away already.)

Actually, N might be 0.  The : may not always be required on single arg
methods in indirect object syntax.  That is, if there's no sub matching

    keys %h

it'll fall back to looking for

    keys %h:

I have horrors of seeing programs full of things like

    close $FH:;

Larry

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