On Thu, 25 May 2017 05:58:39 -0700, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > Code: > say ‘hello’. > say 42 > > Result: > ===SORRY!=== Error while compiling -e > Two terms in a row > at -e:2 > ------> say⏏ 42 > expecting any of: > infix > infix stopper > postfix > statement end > statement modifier > statement modifier loop > > > This bug report was motivated by this task from thinkperl6 book: > > • What if you put a period at the end of a statement? > > > Arguably, it can probably figure out that . was used instead of ;. The > problem is that . is interpreted as an infix, and therefore it only > blows up when it sees the next occurrence of two terms in a row (or > any other issue)… Not sure if there is any easy way to implement > something like this (but a line ending with a dot should be a good > heuristic, no?)
IMO that feels like a solution in search of a problem that assumes too much about what the user actually intended.
