On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:01:34AM -0700, John Williams wrote: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Larry Wall wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > : does it mean that *all* postfix operators have to be "attached" > > : without space to their operand or used with space eater modifyer > > : > > : or > > : > > : only those for which parser ( or we ) knows that they may be confused > > : with binary op or term ? > > > > I think a postfix has to be "attached" always. If there is no postfix, > > then a binary operator doesn't need to have space before it. Otherwise > > it does. > > And if there is no binary, then the postfix can have a space before it?
Sure, as long as you also put the space-eater. I'm not going to change my mind in the space of two messages. (Well, not this time...) > Or are we introducing this new restriction to perl6 just because someone > can define a binary operator:++ ? We are introducing a regularity. In a few spots it will look like a restriction. > perl5 -le '$a = [[42]]; print $$a [0] [0] ++; print $$a[0][0]' > 42 > 43 That will not parse in Perl 6. I promise. Larry
