Re: adverbs o operators

2008-08-07 Thread TSa
HaloO, Larry Wall wrote: The whitespace proposal is essentially to require whitespace between any operator any following pair if the pair is intended to be a noun and not an adverb. So, then my log:base(2) would still look for the positional argument, right? Alternately, we could force eve

Re: adverbs o operators

2008-08-07 Thread Larry Wall
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 06:15:07PM +0200, TSa wrote: >> Do you write >> >> $a lt:lc $b le:lc $c > > I think that works and looks best. My favorite hope is that > >$x = log:2 $y; > > flies, as well. > >$x = log:base(2) $y; > > is a bit lengthy and > >$x = log $y, :base(2); > > looks

Re: adverbs o operators

2008-08-07 Thread TSa
HaloO, John M. Dlugosz wrote: So do they have to go at the end of the whole expression in the current grammar? I don't follow about the spaces. The problem is term versus operator parsing. Do you write $a lt:lc $b le:lc $c I think that works and looks best. My favorite hope is that

Re: adverbs o operators

2008-08-07 Thread John M. Dlugosz
Larry Wall larry-at-wall.org |Perl 6| wrote: > As for > marking each op individually, it might be possible if we add a > whitespace dependency between "lt:lc" and "lt :lc", but 1 ..:by(2) 100 > is pretty ugly. > > Larry So do they have to go at the end of the whole expression in the current gram