Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Significant whitespace (was Re: Blogging sucks)
Date: 01:13 on 17 Oct 2005
> Once you know that there must be no whitespace between the hash
> name and the key lookup operator in Perl6, the parsing is
> completely straightforward.

While it's nice to see Perl authors having to deal with the same kind
of problems everyone else who tries to deal with Perl as if it was a
sane language has to put up with, making it less sane is hardly a step
in the right direction.

> Of course, you are free to dislike that syntax rule.

The behaviour is hateful whatever the reason.

There's stuff above here

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