klaasjan stol parrotcodegmailcom message sent list seems hence forward forwarded message andrew whitworth via rt date thu aug 7 2008 1211 subject perl 57656 proposalpir change pir sugar concat something else parrotcodegmailcom wed aug 06 055307 2008 kjs wrote proposal would change concatenate dot looks like explicit prevent mistakes agree change ive run problem past frustrating dont like take account whitespace resolve syntactic ambiguities especially something basically assembly language like also like get imcc reliably understand used strings performs concatenation instead crazy addition definitely dont like since best practices involves quoting method names foobar raises sorts ambiguity andrew whitworth thu 07 aug 2008 122203 0100 fwd perl 57656 proposalpir change pir sugar concat something else