Deborah Ariel Pickett wrote:
> I'm imagining a table something like this:
>
> Subroutine Pattern matching
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Default { code } / pattern /
> delimiter
>
> Declare named sub foo <delim> rule foo <delim>
> code pattern
> <delim> <delim>
>
> Declare named sub foo (args) <delim> rule foo (args) <delim>
> with args code pattern
> <delim> <delim>
....
> [*] All right, some delimiters won't ever work, like C<$> or C<;>, but the
> paired ones all will.
Could you explain how parentheses (which are one of the sets of paired
delimiters) could be available for use as <delim> in the above table,
when it seems that they discriminate the existance of (args) ?
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Glenn
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