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They might also be triggered by the 1 ... 10. Not that I remember ever using the 3 dot form.

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Re^5: Perl 5.12.0 has been released!
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Apr 13, 2010 at 17:42 UTC
    They might also be triggered by the 1 ... 10.

    Not at all; the anything resembling a real parser can distinguish between the infix and standalone forms of the operator.

    Update: I missed the topic of parsers which are not Perl 5 itself.

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      The topic was lexing editors. Mine uses PPI, so it could distinguish between the two forms of ..., but simpler lexers might have problems.
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      but lexing editors could detect it and create a TODO task for it.

      I was referring to lexing editors...

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