some clarifications on whitespace requirements

Author: TimToady

lib/Language/5to6.pod

@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ syntactic flexibility against the goal of having a consistent,
 deterministic, extensible grammar that supports single-pass parsing and
 helpful error messages, integrates features like custom operators cleanly,
 and doesn't lead programmers to accidentally misstate their intent.
+Also, the practice of "code golf" is slightly de-emphasized; Perl 6 is
+designed to be more concise in concepts than in keystrokes.
 
 As a result, there are various places in the syntax where whitespace is
 optional in Perl 5, but is either mandatory or forbidden in Perl 6. Many of
@@ -74,38 +76,43 @@ I<No space allowed before the opening parenthesis of an argument list.>
     substr ($s, 4, 1); # Perl 5 (in Perl 6 this would try to pass a single
                        #         argument of type List to substr)
     substr($s, 4, 1);  # Perl 6
-    substr $s, 4, 1;   # Perl 6 - alternative, parentheses-less style
+    substr $s, 4, 1;   # Perl 6 - alternative parentheses-less style
+
 =end item
 
 =begin item
-I<No space allowed before the opening bracket of an array/hash subscript, or around the method call operator.>
+I<No space allowed before the opening bracket of a postcircumfix (such as an array/hash subscript), or around the method call operator.>
 
     $people [0] -> name; # Perl 5
     @people[0].name      # Perl 6
+    @people.[0].name      # Perl 6, alternative pseudo-method style
+
 =end item
 
 =begin item
-I<No space allowed after a prefix (or before a postfix/postcircumfix)
-operator.>
+I<No space allowed before a postfix operator.>
 
     $i ++; # Perl 5
     $i++;  # Perl 6
+    $i.++; # Perl 6, alternative pseudo-method style
+
 =end item
 
 =begin item
-I<Space required after (before) an infix operator, if it would otherwise
-conflict with an existing prefix (postfix/postcircumfix) operator.>
+I<Space required before an infix operator if it would
+conflict with an existing postfix/postcircumfix operator.>
 
     $n<1;   # Perl 5 (in Perl 6 this would conflict with postcircumfix < >)
     $n < 1; # Perl 6
+
 =end item
 
 However, note that you can use L<unspace|http://design.perl6.org/S02.html#Unspaces>
 to add whitespace in Perl 6 code in places where it is otherwise not
 allowed:
 
     # Perl 5
-    my @books = $xml->parse_file($file)           # some comment
+    my @books = $xml->parse_file($file)          # some comment
                     ->findnodes("/library/book");
         
     # Perl 6