Re: Synopsis 2 draft 1

2004-08-15 Thread Smylers
Larry Wall writes: : {$foo[$bar]} : {$foo}[$bar] : : That last example seems to violate the previous stipulation about : not following a closure by dereferencers. That's the point--it isn't a dereferencer. It's literal brackets. Ah, yes. Sorry -- my mind was determined to

Re: Precedence table update

2004-08-15 Thread Mark Lentczner
I apologize if the answers to these questions are in the list somewhere, but I can't find any archive of this list that lets me search for things like ^..^ or ?= ! In reviewing the operator precedence table update, I have some questions: 1) What is unary ** ? I assume it is prefix. 2) Did

Re: Precedence table update

2004-08-15 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 02:12:53PM -0700, Mark Lentczner wrote: : I apologize if the answers to these questions are in the list : somewhere, but I can't find any archive of this list that lets me : search for things like ^..^ or ?= ! : : In reviewing the operator precedence table update, I have

Re: Synopsis 2 draft 1

2004-08-15 Thread David Wheeler
On Aug 14, 2004, at 5:52 PM, Larry Wall wrote: If one goes with a standard method name, we also want to see what it looks like as an indirect object: for more $*IN for iter $*IN for every $*IN for read $*IN for in $*IN for shift $*IN Of these, I like Cevery best. Like I