Oops, part of Diamian's quoted text got trimmed accidentally in my last post. It should have looked like this:
On 6/17/05 10:42 PM, John Siracusa wrote: > [...] I'm not, however, buying Damian's argument here: > > On 2005-05-15 20:33:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damian Conway) said: >> This missing design rationale here is that the colon acts as part of the >> unary >> operator: >> >> ./ unary public-method-call-on-invocant >> .: unary private-method-call-on-invocant >> >> So the rule is: >> >> One-character operator --> call on $_ >> Two-character operator --> call on $?SELF" > > It strikes me as more of a "rationalization" than a "rationale"--picking out > patterns after the fact, because that's what our brains like to do. [...] -John
