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"no Perl statement can start with the dot"

Yada-yada operator in Perl 5.12+.

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by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 14, 2020 at 22:15 UTC

    Parser lookaheads are implemented in terms of tokens, not characters. The first token of yada is a triple-dot, not a dot. While you may think it starts with a dot, that's not how the parser sees it, so the existence of yada is not relevant here.

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