Re: string literal following by colon-style call?
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- Subject: Re: string literal following by colon-style call?
- From: Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>
- Date: 2013年8月10日 00:31:41 -0700
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()
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> instead
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> ("a string literal"):lower()
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> 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