Author: audreyt
Date: Tue Mar 13 03:43:31 2007
New Revision: 14344
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
Log:
* S02: More fixups to reflect that fact that the f($x) form
is always &f($x) and never $x.f() now.
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
==============================================================================
--- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod (original)
+++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Tue Mar 13 03:43:31 2007
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@
Maintainer: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 Aug 2004
- Last Modified: 12 Mar 2007
+ Last Modified: 13 Mar 2007
Number: 2
- Version: 95
+ Version: 96
This document summarizes Apocalypse 2, which covers small-scale
lexical items and typological issues. (These Synopses also contain
@@ -2287,7 +2287,7 @@
=item *
There are no barewords in Perl 6. An undeclared bare identifier will
-always be taken to mean a subroutine or method name. (Class names
+always be taken to mean a subroutine name. (Class names
(and other type names) are predeclared, or prefixed with the C<::>
type sigil when you're declaring a new one.) A consequence of this
is that there's no longer any "C<use strict 'subs'>". Since the syntax
@@ -2300,9 +2300,12 @@
foo; # provisional call if neither &foo nor ::foo is defined so far
foo(); # provisional call if &foo is not defined so far
+ foo($x); # provisional call if &foo is not defined so far
foo($x, $y); # provisional call if &foo is not defined so far
+
$x.foo; # not a provisional call; it's a method call on $x
- foo($x); # not a provisional call; it's a method call on $x
+ foo $x:; # not a provisional call; it's a method call on $x
+ foo $x: $y; # not a provisional call; it's a method call on $x
If a postdeclaration is not seen, the compile fails at C<CHECK> time.
(You are still free to predeclare subroutines explicitly, of course.)
