Re: Dot can DWIM without whitespace

[Bryan C . Warnock]

On Wednesday 25 April 2001 21:37, Edward Peschko wrote:
> > '.' is already, to some extent, space sensitive anyway, because it
> > has to pull double duty as a decimal point, as well.
> >
> > '4.5' (4.5) vs '4 .5' (45) vs '4. 5' (missing operator)
>
> beautiful. Then extending this is simple, consistent, easy to read,
> compatible with perl5..

I'm not sure that that was the point I was trying to make.
If nothing else, the '.' would then be responsible for *three* 
different actions.

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Bryan C. Warnock
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