in reply to Re^4: Perl 5.12.0 has been released!
in thread Perl 5.12.0 has been released!

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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Re^6: Perl 5.12.0 has been released!
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 13, 2010 at 18:38 UTC
    The topic was lexing editors. Mine uses PPI, so it could distinguish between the two forms of ..., but simpler lexers might have problems.
Re^6: Perl 5.12.0 has been released!
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Apr 13, 2010 at 17:58 UTC
    but lexing editors could detect it and create a TODO task for it.

    I was referring to lexing editors...