> why do we have to give up a space when calling functions under Pugs? > > A need to type open('file.txt') instead of open ('file.txt') makes > me perplexing (not perl-flexing ;-) Our recent discussions in 'zip with()' > gave no answer.
Not sure whether it's enough of an answer, but see: http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S04.html#Statement_parsing Cheers, Carl