Re: string literal following by colon-style call?

On Aug 9, 2013, at 11:58 PM, Hao Wu <wuhao.wise@gmail.com> wrote:

So my question is, when dealing with string literal, why couldn't we just say:

"a string literal":lower()

instead

("a string literal"):lower()

Is there a language reason to prevent this?

Thanks,

~hao

What's more interesting is that, by my reading of the BNF, _neither_ of these should work (though the second, as you state, does work). SO far as I can see, the BNF doesn't describe the full colon syntax (it is only mentioned when used as part of a function declaration).

--Tim