On 10/7/07, Mark J. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would argue for disallowing the all-jammed-together case, lest we > run into longest-match arguments where "foobar:baz" is "foobar: baz" > but "foo:barbaz" is "foo :barbaz". Yuck.
Uh, that doesn't make sense. Longest match arguments are leftmost, so if you consider the indirect object : to be part of the variable before it (I wouldn't), then you would always get the "foobar: baz" / "foo: barbaz" interpretation. I don't know about the all jammed together case, but mangle $foo : a is not ambiguous because : a is not a pair: there is no whitespace allowed between the colon and the name on that style of pair. Luke
