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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew Whitworth via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:11 AM Subject: [perl #57656] [PROPOSAL][PIR] change PIR sugar for concat into ".." (or something else) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed Aug 06 05:53:07 2008, kjs wrote: > My proposal would be to change the concatenate dot into "..", which looks > like it, but is more explicit, and will prevent such mistakes. I agree that there should be some change. I've run into this problem myself in the past, and it's very frustrating. I don't like having to take into account whitespace to resolve syntactic ambiguities, especially not in something which is basically an assembly language. I like ".." and "~". I also like "+", if we can get IMCC to reliably understand that when used on strings it performs concatenation instead of some crazy addition. I definitely don't like "." since our best practices involves quoting method names such as foo.'bar' which raises all sorts of ambiguity. --Andrew Whitworth
