It is still the case that a space between a function name and the parentheses forces it to be treated as a list operator, so there's no joy for Abigail on that point. What has been resolved is the attempt to treat methods the same way, which didn't work so well. Methods are now treated differently from functions, and are assumed to have no arguments unless the next character is a parenthesis indicating an argument list, or a colon indicating an adverb. I just posted a message to perl6-language explaining this in excruciating detail, so I won't repeat it all here. I'd give you a link but it hasn't come through the perl.org gauntlet just yet...

In reply to Re^6: Perl 6 Whitespace Issues by TimToady
in thread How to Sell Perl 6 by Ovid

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