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marpmarpmar
13y ago
That example doesn't show it very well. To be clear: The intended advantage is: Parens are optional. That permits syntax like the following to be implemented in pure Perl without changing the parser: try { die "foo
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marpmarpmar
13y ago
You're right. I did not explain that well enough. Even with sigils it is unclear whether qv_mult will take 1 or 2 arguments, or whether qq_mult will take 1, 2 or 3. What is however clear is that only qq_mult and qv_mult are function ca