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interpret &(a,b) as a call expresion #34767

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@birm birm commented Feb 14, 2020

closes #34693
I believe that & is included in this list by accident, but I'm not exactly sure.

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Keno commented Feb 14, 2020

I believe that & is included in this list by accident, but I'm not exactly sure.

No, & used to be unary operator syntax for use in ccall. There's been talk about re-using it for automatic boxing.

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birm commented Feb 14, 2020

Ah, it looks like this has been discussed in #34693 and earlier #6080.

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Yes. #34748 is only about printing and is not at all controversial. #34693 is about changing the parsing and is no decided on yet.

@birm birm changed the title allow &(a,b) to work interpret &(a,b) as a call expresion Feb 14, 2020
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birm commented Feb 14, 2020

ok, I've changed the closes to reference #34693 instead of #34748

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birm commented Feb 15, 2020

This would/could also involve reverting part of #34688 if merged.

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Parse &xas a call expression
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