On Tue, 21 Feb 2023 15:51:23 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>IMHO the root cause is that people see what they expect to see; hence the
>value of code and design reviews, where the code is read by a fresh pair of
>eyes with no expectations. ...
>
For the provider side, documentation should contain examples that can be
Copied, Pasted, and tested.
>Meanwhile, I need to add the abutted parenthesis to my Safe REXX paper ;-)
>
Emphasize that a blank between two expressions is often a concatenation operator
and that a symbol is an instance of expression.
The formal syntax is fearsome when one considers monadic/dyadic operators:
say 'true:' \0 /* concatenation */
say "Negative:' -1 /* invalid */
--
gil
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