Re^4: $obj->method v.s. $obj->method()

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it looks like qw() has some magic in it in recent versions

If you mean with "recent" any formal releases in years starting with '2', then yes.

This has worked ever since 5.6.0 - which was the version that started doing qw at compile time, turning qw[foo bar] into ('foo', 'bar'). With parens. Probably most often seen in:

foreach my $qw qw (qw qw) {print $qw}
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Re^5: $obj->method v.s. $obj->method() by Burak (Chaplain) on May 09, 2009 at 18:45 UTC
I meant 5.8+ actually. Haven't used 5.6 much. I usually test 5.5.4 compatibility from time to time for some of my code. But having this in 5.6 is interesting as it kind of enables some perl6 features very early like the foreach loop you wrote :)	[reply]

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