On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:50:12PM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
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: On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 06:41 PM, Michael Lazzaro wrote:
: > print $i; # ILLEGAL; use $STDOUT.print($i) or $i.print (?)
: > reverse @a; # ILLEGAL; use @a.reverse;
: > map {...} @a; # ILLEGAL; use @a.map({...});
: > sort {...} @a; #
: > keys %h; # ...etc...
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: (And yes, I'm aware that (1 <= N <= 5) of those are going away already.)
Actually, N might be 0. The : may not always be required on single arg
methods in indirect object syntax. That is, if there's no sub matching
keys %h
it'll fall back to looking for
keys %h:
I have horrors of seeing programs full of things like
close $FH:;
Larry
