Author: larry
Date: Wed Apr 5 16:37:32 2006
New Revision: 8566
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
Log:
Typo, plus explicate [.foo] meaning.
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
==============================================================================
--- doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod (original)
+++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod Wed Apr 5 16:37:32 2006
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@
&infix:<dehash> ::= postcircumfix:<{ }>;
$x = [dehash] $a,'foo','bar'; # $a<foo><bar>, not $a<foo bar>
-Note that, because a reduce is a list operator, the argument list to is
+Note that, because a reduce is a list operator, the argument list is
evaluated in list context. Therefore the following would be incorrect:
$x = [dehash] %a,'foo','bar';
@@ -318,6 +318,9 @@
@args = (\%a,'foo','bar');
$x = [dehash] @args;
+Note also that C<[.foo]> always means C<[$_.foo]>, never a reduce operator.
+Infix operators are not allowed to start with a dot.
+
=head1 Junctive operators
C<|>, C<&>, and C<^> are no longer bitwise operators (see L</Operator
