I think the magical + isn't going to work.
Has the road of just putting things next to each other been extensively
tried? It works for Awk... juxtapose, the Famous Invisible Perl
Operator.
Perl 5 Perl 6
$a = $b . $c; $a = $b $c; # or $b$c
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:32:39PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
Has the road of just putting things next to each other been extensively
tried? It works for Awk... juxtapose, the Famous Invisible Perl
Operator.
Perl 5 Perl 6
$a = $b . $c; $a =
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:42:10PM +0100, Michael G Schwern wrote:
: On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 02:32:39PM -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
: Has the road of just putting things next to each other been extensively
: tried? It works for Awk... juxtapose, the Famous Invisible Perl
: Operator.
:
This is going to make finding syntax errors a bit difficult, as many
will simply become concatination operators. Consider
print Foo
foo(bar);
Did the author forget a semi-colon, or did they intend to concatinate
there? Also, consider this...
*sigh*. Ok, how about:
Ah.. I knew I'd find the thread in here somewhere.
The problems go away if you allow white space to signify.
[...] Consider
print Foo
foo(bar);
Did the author forget a semi-colon, or did they intend to concatinate
there? Also, consider this...
they forgot a
