In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> brian d foy writes: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Wall > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:28:48AM -0800, brian d foy wrote: > > > > > > : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Larry Wall > > > : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > : > > > : > : Later in the "Literals" section of S02, there's a chart of the > > > : > : corresponding forms for fat arrow, pair, and paren notation. It has > > > : > : > > > : > : a => 'foo' :a<foo> :a(<foo>) > > > > > > You're confusing various levels here when you say "same thing". > > > They're the same in some ways and different in others. > The colon can _also_ be used for forming adverbs (similarly to how the > slash can be used for both regexes and division, in different places), > but that doesn't effect the equivalence of the above. The section where that table is talks about adverbs. This isn't just the same characters being used for different things. Some pairs also act like adverbs. See my earlier message on file test operators.
