in a '/' is a regex, anything otherwise is a hash slice.
I don't understand. Could you give some examples? Is this in the context of bare /path/to/foo, even?
/foo/ # trailing slash -- so it's a regexp (m/foo/) /foo\/bar/ # trailing slash -- syntax error (m/foo/ bar/) /foo/a # hash-path -- no trailing slash ($_.{'foo'}{'a'}) /foo\/bar # hash-path -- no trailing slash ($_.{'foo/bar'}) /foo\/ # hash-path -- no trailing slash ($_.{'foo/'})
I think this is highly ambiguous.
$x = /foo * $bar/and +bar();
would that be:
$x = m/foo* $bar/ && (+bar());
or
$x = $_.{'foo'} * $bar.{'and'} + bar();?
As much as I see the appeal of this syntax, the / is simply too heavily used already.
-- Matthijs van Duin -- May the Forth be with you!
