> -----Original Message-----
> From: Austin Frank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 10:58 AM
> To: Luke Palmer
> Cc: perl6language,
> Subject: Re: Problem with dwimmery
> Do we still have a yada yada yada?  Could it be used to differentiate
> between the two cases?
> 
>      while $x-- && some_conditions( $x ) {...}
> 
> but
> 
>      my $hashref = {};
> 
> Thanks,


   These do two different things.  {...} indicates that foo is just being
declared and the program should die if the code is ever executed.  {} is an
empty subroutine that executes by doing absolutely nothing.

Joe Gottman

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