On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 06:41:35PM +0200, Juerd wrote: : Larry Wall skribis 2005-05-14 9:20 (-0700): : > Possibly. Or we just define infix .{}. and .[]. variants, or some such. : : The problem is that we already have @foo[] meaning the same as @foo, and : an always allowed . that also allows you to put whitespace around it. : This means that %foo.{}.$kv should really just be %foo.kv, if $kv eq : 'kv'. I think this won't work well with two dots surrounding {}. : %foo.{}$kv OTOH is currently invalid syntax, so available for : assimilation. Ugly, yes, but I would never suggest actually using this : operator literally -- it's fine to just have it for reduce.
Good thing I said "or some such". :-) : OTOH, reduce probably just needs to be smart enough to understand : postcircumfix. Perhaps whitespace helps, [{ }], in parallel with : &postcircumfix:<{ }>, to avoid a conflict with an infix {}. Erm, I don't like tokens with spaces in the middle. Actually, I think Damian's original formulation is sufficiently clear. Larry