Re: foo..bar or long dot and the range operator

> I *still* don't understand the problem this long dot is trying to
> solve.

I'm a bit with you, there. I can see why you might want to do

$query
.fetchrow($i)
.selectcolumn($j)
.say;

rather than

$query.
fetchrow($i).
selectcolumn($j).
say;

but surely

$query.
.fetchrow($i).
.selectcolumn($j).
.say;

is the worst of both worlds? And it strikes me that the ability to put
big, block comments between operator and operand is not a particularly
useful one.

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