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From:
Damian Conway
Date:
June 11, 2001 16:20
Subject:
Re: Coupla Questions
Message ID:
200106112320.JAA12862@indy05.csse.monash.edu.au
   > What I was asking, in a roundabout way, was if
   >     $foo.bar.baz
   > makes sense; your answer suggests that it does. In which case, we can
   > teach the parser that a property query is just like a method call is
   > just like a hash or array element (with optional dereference if you're
   > calling $foo.{bar} instead of %foo.{bar}.)

Subscripts don't fit here at all. And, in my option, shouldn't be made too.

It's:

	%foo{bar}
	@foo[$bar]

not:

	%foo.{bar}
	@foo.[$bar]

The dereferencing dot is an error there.

I believe it's vitally important not to mix everything together syntactically
(or semantically!) 

Damian

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