Markus Laker schreef: > If I've got this right: > > mangle $foo :a; # mangle($foo, a => 1); > mangle $foo: a; # $foo.mangle(a()); > > So these -- > > mangle $foo:a; > mangle $foo : a; > > are ambiguous and, as far as I can tell from the synopses, undefined. > So what's the rule: that indirect-object colon needs whitespace after > but not before, and adverbial colon needs whitespace before but not > after? > > The reason I ask is that I'm knocking up an intro to Perl 6 for C and > C++ programmers. I expect some of Perl 6's whitespace rules to trip > up people used to C++ (as they have me, in my clumsy attempts with > Pugs), and I'd like to summarise all the whitespace dwimmery in one > place.
We were making fun of this: <news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger."