Re: RFC 174 (v1) Parse C<func($obj, @args)> as C<func $obj (@args)>
[email protected] (Tom Christiansen) Thu, 31 Aug 2000 00:41:47 -0600
| Newsgroups | perl.perl6.language.subs |
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| Message-ID | <6261.967704107@chthon> |
>Not every (natural) language does it that way; some place the most >important thing -last-. A Japanese Perl might want to say > "darn" STDERR print; >for instance (Japanese is a subject-object-verb language). Sure; Latin had SOV, and you still see SOV in Romance when pronouns are involved. (Or in Spanish, for other cases, too, for emphasis.) But we're really talking English here, and we're talking about verbs in the imperative mode with an implied subject. --tom