On Jul 9, 2009, at 18:22 , Moritz Lenz wrote:
Somehow the current file test syntax, 'filename' ~~ :e, looks like a notwell-though-out translation of Perl 5's syntax, -e 'filename'.
That would be because it is; originally the filetests were perl5- style, but pugs refused to parse them because you can't combine operator and word characters in a single token. (I admit to wondering if pugs' parse problems were enough of a reason to change them, especially now that pugs is pretty much dead.)
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