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Postings from April 2001
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:32:29PM -0400, John L. Allen wrote: > I think someone may have mentioned this already, but why not just say > that if you want '.' to mean concatenation, you have to surround it on > either side with white space? If there's no white space around it, then > it is forced to mean method invokation, or whatever else. This approaches "whitespace as syntax". Very few Perl operators care about whitespace between their words (even ->) or whitespace at all. More generally, its going to cause alot of careful squinting at code to distinguish between different operators. This will lead to subtle bugs because someone accidentally put a space after the . and didn't notice. Its just cutting it too thin. Don't go this route unless others are exhausted first. -- Michael G. Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance <perl-qa@perl.org> Kwalitee Is Job One BOFH excuse #100: IRQ dropout