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Clarification on :sweet(16) -> :16sweet adverb
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lizmat committed Apr 5, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -3677,7 +3677,9 @@ For identifiers that take a numeric argument, it is allowed to
abbreviate, for example, C<:sweet(16)> to C<:16sweet>. (This is
distinguishable from the :16<deadbeef> form, which never has an
alphabetic character following the number.) Only literal decimal
numbers may be swapped this way.
numbers may be swapped this way. Please note that this abbreviation allows:

s:2nd/foo/bar/ # or 3rd, 4th, 5th etc.

The other forms of adverb (including the bare C<:a> form) I<always>
look for an immediate bracketed argument, and will slurp it up.
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