Re^3: Query about barewords

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Re^4: Query about barewords (octal) by tye (Sage) on Sep 06, 2012 at 17:12 UTC
As long as you don't want to keep any leading zeros. The claim is less accurate than even that: `% say "010 => 11" 8 11` [download] Also: `% say "123456789012345678901234567890 => 30" 1.23456789012346e+029 30 % say "'123456789012345678901234567890' => 30" 123456789012345678901234567890 30` [download] But I've also long considered the failure of "`use strict; Foo::Bar =>`" to likely just be an oversight. I suspect a patch to Perl's tokenizer/parser to allow '::' in so-called barewords would not be terribly difficult and might even be accepted by p5p. - tye	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^4: Query about barewords (octal)
by tye (Sage) on Sep 06, 2012 at 17:12 UTC

As long as you don't want to keep any leading zeros.

The claim is less accurate than even that:

 % say "010 => 11"
8
11
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Also:

  % say "123456789012345678901234567890 => 30"
1.23456789012346e+029
30
  % say "'123456789012345678901234567890' => 30"
123456789012345678901234567890
30
[download]

But I've also long considered the failure of "use strict; Foo::Bar =>" to likely just be an oversight. I suspect a patch to Perl's tokenizer/parser to allow '::' in so-called barewords would not be terribly difficult and might even be accepted by p5p.

- tye

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