Re: Perl Tutorial code uses "qw" but has an error when run

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Re^2: Perl Tutorial code uses "qw" but has an error when run by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 02, 2018 at 17:45 UTC
It was never supported. A bug in the parser merely allowed it despite being invalid syntax.	[reply]
Re^3: Perl Tutorial code uses "qw" but has an error when run by LanX (Saint) on May 02, 2018 at 17:58 UTC
> It was never supported. A bug ... Well a bug which made its way into the perldocs. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re^4: Perl Tutorial code uses "qw" but has an error when run by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 02, 2018 at 22:48 UTC
Could you back up that claim? I just looked at 5.12's perlsyn, and it definitely shows parens required around the list of a foreach loop. I also checked perlop, and didn't see anything different there.	[reply]
Re^5: Perl Tutorial code uses "qw" but has an error when run by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 02, 2018 at 22:51 UTC
Re^6: Perl Tutorial code uses "qw" but has an error when run by LanX (Saint) on May 02, 2018 at 23:01 UTC
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Re^2: Perl Tutorial code uses "qw" but has an error when run by LanX (Saint) on May 02, 2018 at 15:27 UTC
It might be a good idea to automatically test all code sections in perlpod with `perl -c` Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l]


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