> if you manage to enter a subroutine named s into the stash you can certainly call it with &s

to illustrate what I meant, *s and &s are not "bare" because of the sigils.

But a bare word s is supposed to start a s/// resp. s()() or s{}{} or ... depending on whatever character follows (even with empty space in between)

This makes parsing particularly difficult.

use strict;
use warnings;


*s = sub { warn "s called" };

&s();

#  --- not working
# sub s {
#   warn "s called"
# }

# --- neither
#   s();

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s called at c:/tmp/pm/s_sub.pl line 11.

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This problem should apply for all perlop#Quote-and-Quote-like-Operators .

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
Je suis Charlie!

In reply to Re^9: Feature Idea: qr//e (Quote-like-Operators) by LanX
in thread Feature Idea: qr//e (updated with solutions) by haukex

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