Re: Re: Apocalypse 12

program in a language where the value of an expression changes depending whether there's whitespace between tokens or not.

Like Perl 5?

print 3 . 5;
print 3.5;

print "$foo{bar}";
print "$foo {bar}";
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And more. Still, I think you should not do the yeah-whatever thing. Instead of losing interest, read on to see this part:

And yes, I know certain people hate it. They can write their own grammar.

He means you.

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }

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Re: Apocalypse 12 by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Apr 19, 2004 at 07:58 UTC
`print 3 . 5; print 3.5;` [download] 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}";` [download] 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	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Apocalypse 12 by Juerd (Abbot) on Apr 20, 2004 at 09:22 UTC
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? Yes, I do. (And probably will have a grammar or bunch of macros of my own) Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }	[reply]
Re: Apocalypse 12 by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Apr 20, 2004 at 09:40 UTC
So, on CPAN, we'll get `Grammar::Juerd`, `Grammar::RandomPerlHacker`, `Grammar::Bleach`, `Grammar::Pony` (might as well move them from `ACME::`), etc? Considering the confusion I've seen after posting a few programming snippets that used the defined-or operator, I don't share your opinion. But time will tell. Abigail	[reply]
Re^2: Apocalypse 12 by adrianh (Chancellor) on Apr 20, 2004 at 15:58 UTC
Re: Apocalypse 12 by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Apr 20, 2004 at 16:31 UTC
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Re: Re: Apocalypse 12 by Juerd (Abbot) on Apr 20, 2004 at 15:55 UTC