> ... until the first time you run into a precedence problem, for example with hash or list slices.

Don't know what you mean ... all my examples were parenthesized so precedence problems shouldn't occur !?!

There was no example with slices but I think 

€ar[1][5..6]    ==  @{ $ar->[1] } [5..6]

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shouldn't leave place for ambiguity.

Actually it's practically impossible to implement this with a simple code-filter, (see my first approach) because one can't tell by static parsing where the dereferencing ends ( here the last array-index ) and where to put the closing curly.

Or do you mean it's not necessarily clear at compiletime if the last expression (here [5..6]) is a list and leads therefore to slicing-syntax???

In reply to Re^6: Two more Features Perl 5 Maybe Needs by LanX
in thread Five Features Perl 5 Needs Now by Arunbear

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