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in reply to Re^2: Mysterious "syntax error"
in thread Mysterious "syntax error"

Those should both be ambiguous, as well, at least to my mind
What part of
there's some "guessing" code to deal with the ambiguity
did you miss reading? if you mean "what is the actual rules of the guessing?", well the Perl source code is available for download in about 150 CPAN locations, at least.

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