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
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