Re^10: ** operator in perl

It's funny you mention Perl. I assume you meant Perl 5. I have toke.c open right here. You might find the *SPACE macros illuminating. They're used in functions to disambiguate lexing of, for example, unary functions, non-predeclared barewords, line number detection, unary operators (a comment there gives an example of rand +5), version numbers, method calls, use invocations, shebang line parsing, line number detection in string eval constructs, the unary minus operator, the various occurrences of the > token, and I'm only a third of the way through the file.

Can you be more specific than "I don't like Python's indentation, therefore any language with whitespace rules sucks?"

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Re^11: ** operator in perl by Zen (Deacon) on Feb 06, 2009 at 15:15 UTC
More specific about why whitespace rules suck or more specific about why the above 3 examples you asked for fit the bill? I can go in depth either way but rather give a focused answer. I'm not flaming you, so if this is about discussion please reply and if not, don't bother. And yes, perl 5 is what I mean when I say perl. Be ready for the same suffering twins go through when they're named practically the same after p6 is born, though.	[reply]

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Re^11: ** operator in perl
by Zen (Deacon) on Feb 06, 2009 at 15:15 UTC

More specific about why whitespace rules suck or more specific about why the above 3 examples *you* asked for fit the bill? I can go in depth either way but rather give a focused answer. I'm not flaming you, so if this is about discussion please reply and if not, don't bother. And yes, perl 5 is what I mean when I say perl. Be ready for the same suffering twins go through when they're named practically the same after p6 is born, though.

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