Nice theory and fairly reasonable on the surface, but if you check the CPAN Testers reports for this module, you'll see that it passes tests and the failures are not (as far as I saw) due to this syntax.

It turns out that this syntax is a feature of Spiffy. My first somewhat wild guess is that we've got the classic failure of a badly designed source filter by someone with too much hubris to realize that they aren't good enough at parsing Perl to pull this off.

Update: Spiffy's source filter doesn't appear to try to parse Perl, as near as I can tell.

- tye        

In reply to Re^2: "my sub" error (Spiffy) by tye
in thread "my sub" error by Anonymous Monk

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