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Re: Adverbs

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From:
Jonathan Lang
Date:
April 24, 2006 22:18
Subject:
Re: Adverbs
Message ID:
ef30550b0604242218p66f623abof05105a433a2beb2@mail.gmail.com
Larry Wall wrote:
> You might have to write that
>
>    @list ==> $foo.act :bar('baz');
>
> I think or the colon on the method would be taken as starting a list.
> I dunno, depends on whether .act: is considered a "longest token",
> I guess.  I could argue it the other way as well, and :bar is a longest
> token compared to :.

Eh?  What's this bit about lists and colons?  (This is one of the
things that worries me about Perl 6: there seem to be all sorts of
"edge cases" which crop up at the most unexpected times.)

--
Jonathan "Dataweaver" Lang

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