[svn:perl6-synopsis] r14537 - doc/trunk/design/syn

Author: larry
Date: Wed Apr  2 11:02:36 2008
New Revision: 14537

Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod

Log:
typo from Jon Lang++
clarify innards of () and [] slightly


Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
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--- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod	(original)
+++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod	Wed Apr  2 11:02:36 2008
@@ -1489,7 +1489,7 @@

&foo($arg1, $arg2);

-Whitespace is not allowed before the parens because it it is parsed as
+Whitespace is not allowed before the parens because it is parsed as
a postfix.  As with any postfix, there is also a corresponding C<.()>
operator, and you may use the "unspace" form to insert optional
whitespace and comments between the backslash and either of the

Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod
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--- doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod	(original)
+++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S03.pod	Wed Apr  2 11:02:36 2008
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@

This isn't really a precedence level, but it's in here because no operator
can have tighter precedence than a term.  See S02 for longer descriptions of
-various terms.
+various terms.  Here are some examples.

=over

@@ -137,7 +137,10 @@

[1,2,3]

-Provides list context inside.
+Provides list context inside.  (Technically, it really provides a
+"semilist" context, which is a semicolon-separated list of statements,
+each of which is interpreted in list context and then concatenated
+into the final list.)

=item *

@@ -213,11 +216,14 @@

=item *

-Circumfixed subexpressions
+Subexpressions circumfixed by parentheses

(1+2)

-Circumfixed items are treated like a term on the outside.
+Parentheses are parsed on the inside as a semicolon-separated list
+of statements, which (unlike the statements in a block) returns the results
+of all the statements concatenated together as a C<List> of C<Capture>.
+How that is subsequently treated depends on its eventual binding.

=item *