If I've got this right: mangle $foo :a; # mangle($foo, a => 1); mangle $foo: a; # $foo.mangle(a());
So these -- mangle $foo:a; mangle $foo : a; are ambiguous and, as far as I can tell from the synopses, undefined. So what's the rule: that indirect-object colon needs whitespace after but not before, and adverbial colon needs whitespace before but not after? The reason I ask is that I'm knocking up an intro to Perl 6 for C and C++ programmers. I expect some of Perl 6's whitespace rules to trip up people used to C++ (as they have me, in my clumsy attempts with Pugs), and I'd like to summarise all the whitespace dwimmery in one place. Many thanks, Markus
