<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 31, 2017, at 11:43 AM, Ramana V Mokkapati <<a href="mailto:mvr707@gmail.com" class="">mvr707@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I did not see any inconsistency ...</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>It seems to be consistently stupid. This bites other postfix operators as well. Take the example at the end of chapter 4.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div><font face="Courier New" class="">sub postfix:<Factorial>($n) {</font></div><div><font face="Courier New" class=""> [*] 1..$n</font></div><div><font face="Courier New" class="">}</font></div><div><font face="Courier New" class="">say 5Factorial; # 120</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can't put a space between 5 and Factorial. (You can put a backslash and then a space, if you want.)</div></div><div><br class=""></div><div>The part that amuses me is that this is prefaced by the statement:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><div><blockquote type="cite" class="">There is no intention in Perl 6 design to make user-defined operators cryptic.</blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div> -bob</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>