Re: RFC 84 (v1) Replace => (stringifying comma) with =>

[Mark Cogan]

At 05:59 PM 8/10/00 -0700, Glenn Linderman wrote:
>Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
>
> > The => operator would cease to be a
> > first-argument-stringifying comma operator
>
>I find nothing in the documentation that suggests that => is anything 
>other than a
>plain comma operator, yet you call it a "first-argument-stringifying comma
>operator".  In fact, the documentation explicitly claims "=>" is a synonym 
>of ","
>(see perldata).
>
>So I'm curious where you get this from, and what you mean by it, and 
>whether it is
>relevant to this RFC.

Camel, 2e, page 50 :

"The => operator is just a synonym for a comma, but it's more visually 
distinctive, and it also quotes any bare identifiers to the left of it..."


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