Strings vs expressions

[James Bonfield]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 03:54:15PM +0000, rice wrote:
> When () are nested, the inner ones are always evaluated first.
> 
> $ or @ on their own, with no (), are unchanged.

So what you're saying basically is that $(...) and @(...) are expressions (to
the matching bracket), and any other occurrence of $, ( and @ are just basic
text. (That's fine as it now agrees with how I changed things - previously I
was working on $ and @ at the start of a word indicating an expression.)

Could this behaviour please be documented? The ACD docs seem to indicate that
all parsing is done on a word by word basis, which is where I originally
concluded that $/@ starting a word indicates an expression.

James

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