From: Markus <markus@...>
Date: 2004-10-09T12:16:18+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: Free-form-operators patch

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 17:24, Phil Tomson wrote:
> I think this patch is quite cool and I even have immediate applications 
> for it (the much discussed ':=' operator)... However, I have the same 
> concern mentioned above.  It seems that it could make it more difficult 
> to detect some syntax errors. Couldn't it also lead to some parsing 
> ambiguities?

     I don't think so.  My policy is: if it could be ambiguous, warn and
interpret it as the old parser would have (break no code).  In general,
it is no more confusing to the parser than the existence of reserved
words and identifiers, both made out of lower-case letters.

     -- Markus