On 8/4/05, Ingo Blechschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > (found in the Pugs testsuite.) > > my $undef = undef; > say $undef.chars? # 0? undef? die? > say chars $undef; # 0? undef? die? > > I'd opt for "undef.chars" to be an error ("no such method") and "chars > undef" to return 0 (with a warning printed to STDERR^W$*ERR).
Well, I think that "chars $undef" should be exactly equivalent to "$undef.chars". In fact, I think it is: "chars $undef" is just the indirect object form. So perhaps "method not found" errors "fail" instead of "die". Luke