Hello: I am using Inline::Spew to randomly walk through grammars. I am interested in adding variables to the grammar that can change each time it is compiled. However this only produces blank spaces instead of the value. I'd like to do something like this: 
  $foo = "Matt";
  use Inline Spew => q{
  START: sentence
  sentence: person " " action "."
  person: "$foo" | "She" | "Barnacle Bill"
  action: "walks" | "sails" | "swims"
  };
  print spew();

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So that a possible output would be - Matt sails. But "Matt" just comes out empty. Any ideas how I might accomplish this? It would be cool to have the user input names that are then added to the grammar before it's compiled. Thanks so much!

In reply to Adding variables to Spew grammar by Anonymous Monk

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