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My first reaction was also that the space is wrong, but then tye corrected me in the CB so I did a bit of experimenting and found surprising (to me) results. Guess what this snippet will do: 
print $foo;
print $foo ++;
print $foo, $foo ++;

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(tye)Re: Head to numb to see it.....
by tye (Sage) on Mar 08, 2001 at 23:18 UTC

    The second line is one of the strange cases with whitespace. This is due to the "indirect object" syntax where the first argument can be missing the separating comma to indicate that it is a file handle (in the case of print). Like I said, there are some interesting exceptions but for most things spacing doesn't matter.

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