On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 08:30:06PM -0400, Rob Kinyon wrote: : On 5/15/05, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > Brad Bowman skribis 2005-05-16 9:56 (+1000): : > > Would it conflict with range + pattern? Or has that changed anyway? : > : > No, "./" and "../" are prefix only, so they cannot clash with an infix : > operator like "..". : : How would : : print "Foo" while $self../method; : : parse? What does the parser do when it sees "../"? I know what it will : do when it sees that ../method terminates the condition. But, will it : backtrack?
../ would only be recognized where a term is expected, so that would parse as well (or as poorly) as: print "Foo" while $self .. /method; Larry