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* Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> [2013-07-02T07:12:36] > > print "Things: $aref_of_things->@*" > > > > ...which gets into less clearly-introduceable behavior. > > This is "less clear" because right now that parses as > > print 'Things: ' . $aref_of_things . '->@*' > > not as a syntax error? ie we're changing the meaning of something valid. Correct. > Are there parsing ambiguities with a colon? Particularly, if a colon is > expected because the opening '?' of a ternary has been seen, does this > confuse things? Colon was another suggestion that had been made, specifically $x->:@ I don't believe it's likely to be ambiguous, because the -> can't dangle in front of a ternary's colon. -- rjbsThread Previous