Author: larry Date: Sat Nov 4 10:00:08 2006 New Revision: 13415 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
Log: More clarification on parsing of "if " vs "if()". Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Sat Nov 4 10:00:08 2006 @@ -2342,9 +2342,12 @@ is notionally "first" wins. For instance, given the example above, a statement_control is always going to win out over a prefix operator of the same name. And the reason you can't call a function named "if" -directly because it would be hidden either by the statement_control -category at the beginning of a statement or the statement_modifier -category elsewhere in the statement.) +directly as a list operator is because it would be hidden either by +the statement_control category at the beginning of a statement or by +the statement_modifier category elsewhere in the statement. Only the +C<if(...)> form unambiguously calls an "if" function, and even that +works only because statement controls and statement modifiers require +subsequent whitespace, as do list operators.) Here are the current grammatical categories:
