in reply to Clarifying the Comma Operator

Seems like an explicit pattern is easy enough:

The "=>" operator is a synonym for the comma, but forces any word (anything matching /^\w+$/ that is not a numeric literal) to its left to be interpreted as a string (as of 5.001). This includes words that might otherwise be considered a constant or function call.

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    Dean

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Re^2: Clarifying the Comma Operator
by zwon (Abbot) on Jun 07, 2009 at 22:32 UTC

    08z isn't numeric literal, but: 

    $ perl -E'say 08z => 1'
Illegal octal digit '8' at -e line 1, at end of line
syntax error at -e line 1, near "08z"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

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