On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:47:22AM -0500, Austin Hastings wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Larry Wall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Now in the specific case of . and .= we don't exactly have a normal
> > binary operator, because the right side is not an expression.
>
> $tis.=««sad pity pity sad sad pity true»;
>
> $s .= ($useMbcs ? wlength : length);
>
> (Side note: although that expression isn't valid, since the wlength
> and length methods aren't qualified, it *should* be, since a human could
> infer it rather easily. Can we make that DWIM? (One way would be
> for the parser to convert that into if-else form if it appeared
> ambiguous.))
So ... how smart will perl6 be?
$o .= (foo,bar,baz);
$o .= (expr_returning_method);
Since human expectations vary I don't think I want these.
-Scott
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