print 3 . 5;
print 3.5;

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I fail to see your point here. In the first line, there are 5 tokens, 'print', '3', '.', '5', and ';'. In the second line there are 3 tokens, 'print', '3.5', and ';'. 

print "$foo{bar}";
print "$foo {bar}";

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Indeed, and something that doesn't make me very happy. Luckely this is a problem that is usually found by the compiler, assuming you have 'strict' turned on, and don't have a scalar with the same name as the hash.
And yes, I know certain people hate it. They can write their own grammar.
Oh, I read that. Do you think that if people start writing their own grammars (of which I haven't seen any indication that it will be anything but hard to get it right) that that will produce maintainable code?

Abigail

In reply to Re: Apocalypse 12 by Abigail-II
in thread Apocalypse 12 by broquaint

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