Seems to me that you are -- in some large part -- setting up strawmen to knock down. For example, in your first example in the parent node, you say:

001: 'a' x 3 => 'aaa'
002: 'a' x 3*2 => 'aaa' * 2 ==> error ...

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and in your last example (from which I won't even quote your global indictment of Perl) you appear to be objecting to the failure of the snippet to DWIW (that's do what I WANT; do what I mean is a different critter.)

' ' x 3*2

Simple parens cure what you see as a problem requiring revision of the language:

C:\>perl -E "my $foo = 'a'; say 'a' x (3*2); say 'hey, goombatz!';"
aaaaaa
hey, goombatz!

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Sorry, I may be convinced eventually, but so far, I don't think you've made your case.


If you didn't program your executable by toggling in binary, it wasn't really programming!

In reply to Re^5: Precedence design question...'x' & arith by ww
in thread Precedence design question...'x' & arith by perl-diddler

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