Re: Strings vs Numbers (Re: Tying & Overloading)

[Michael G Schwern]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:32:29PM -0400, John L. Allen wrote:
> I think someone may have mentioned this already, but why not just say
> that if you want '.' to mean concatenation, you have to surround it on 
> either side with white space?  If there's no white space around it, then 
> it is forced to mean method invokation, or whatever else.

This approaches "whitespace as syntax".  Very few Perl operators care
about whitespace between their words (even ->) or whitespace at all.

More generally, its going to cause alot of careful squinting at code
to distinguish between different operators.  This will lead to subtle
bugs because someone accidentally put a space after the . and didn't
notice.

Its just cutting it too thin.  Don't go this route unless others are
exhausted first.


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