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You've just confused the parse (Score:3, Informative)

by Elian (119)

The potential meaning of { is so overloaded that perl has to do some probabalistic analysis to figure out what you mean when you put a { in--is it the left bracket for a block, a hash index, or an anonymous hash constructor? (There's some interesting code that calculates a weighted score based on surrounding constructs, and decides based on that) All that's happened is that your code has, in a mildly ambiguous circumstance, gone down the wrong path. Dunno if I'd call this a bug in perl, since the offending
- Re:You've just confused the parse (Score:2)
  
  by TeeJay (2309) on 2003.05.16 10:07 (#20196) Homepage Journal
  
  I wasn't sure it was a bug in perl - hence the journal entry..
  Like I said - There had a to be an elegant way of doing it and in the end I just simplified it so that it no longer used "old_$_" but $_ and ItJustWorked(TM).
  
  --
  
  @JAPH = qw(Hacker Perl Another Just);
  print reverse @JAPH;
  
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