in reply to •Re: Mysterious "syntax error"
in thread Mysterious "syntax error"
That doesn't answer the question as to why the two examples BrowserUk listed in his second <code> block work. Those should both be ambiguous, as well, at least to my mind. Would you mind taking a stab at explaining how perl figures those out?
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