[perl #127143] Different Behaviour With/Without Commas in Sub/Method Calls and slipped hashes

[email protected] ("Brian S. Julin via RT") Mon, 21 May 2018 09:13:16 -0700
Newsgroups perl.perl6.compiler
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Without the comma, the colonpair is in infix position, which means
it applies to the prefix unary | operator.

So whether this should be an error or "work" depends on what we can teach the |
operator to do with fake_infix adverbs it is passed.

Note if we fix | to use fake infix adverbs, then we create the problem
that |(1,1),(2,2),:f :g will be 1,1,:g,(2,2),:f.

It might be best to teach | to throw when it is handed such things.

There are several other operators that will find themselves in the same
situation... especially we have other tickets about = which gets tricky
due to the difference between list and scalar assignment.