On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 08:30:06PM -0400, Rob Kinyon wrote:
: On 5/15/05, Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > Brad Bowman skribis 2005-05-16  9:56 (+1000):
: > > Would it conflict with range + pattern?  Or has that changed anyway?
: > 
: > No, "./" and "../" are prefix only, so they cannot clash with an infix
: > operator like "..".
: 
: How would
: 
:     print "Foo" while $self../method;
: 
: parse? What does the parser do when it sees "../"? I know what it will
: do when it sees that ../method terminates the condition. But, will it
: backtrack?

../ would only be recognized where a term is expected, so that would
parse as well (or as poorly) as:

    print "Foo" while $self .. /method;

Larry

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