Mark J. Reed wrote:
Doesn't unspace work for this?
It would seem that S02 says otherwise:
Although we say that the unspace hides the whitespace from the parser, it
does not hide whitespace from the lexer. As a result, unspace is not allowed
within a token.
So, assuming that an integer literal at least, and maybe also an angle dwimmery,
is a single token, then that wouldn't work.
If unspace did the job, I should be able to say this:
my $foo = 3.1415926535897\
93238462643383279;
or:
my $foo = 3.1415926535897\ 93238462643383279;
and it would be interpreted the same ways as if I said:
my $foo = 3.141592653589793238462643383279;
Now I think there are good reasons for unspace not being allowed in a token, in
which case we'd need some other syntax for the continuation marker that I want.
As for supporting long rational literals expressed as X/Y, I can live with being
required to say "(136\ 5634/42442\ 555)" and depend on constant folding rather
than "<136\ 5634/42442\ 555>" doing the same, if that would make things easier.
However, the likes of this needs to work:
my $bar = :8<55084\ 4222\ 7677>;
... same as this does:
my $baz = 564345\ 242432;
Thank you.
-- Darren Duncan
