On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 3:44 AM, Luca Ferrari <fluca1...@infinito.it> wrote:
> this will sound trivial, but the following piece of code that in my > mind should work does not: > > $mode = 'csv' if ( ! $mode.defined || %available_modes{ $mode }:!exists ); > > and the compiler says: > > You can't adverb &infix:<||> > You want the adverb to be on the postcircumfix; parenthesize the expression. IIRC this was considered the least bad alternative out of an ambiguous parse (i.e. which operation does the adverb apply to?). $mode = 'csv' if ( ! $mode.defined || (%available_modes{ $mode }:!exists) ); -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net