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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:57:48PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:53:37AM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> > On Jul 30, 2009, at 10:27 AM, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> >
> > >First, how about if we disallow only the BEGIN-family of keywords as
> > >labels?
> > >Considering the original bug report those are the ones that can cause
> > >trouble. Writing "for: {}" is weird but why should we stop you,
> > >really?
> >
> > I think just disallowing the uppercase keywords would be sufficient.
>
> Except that the problem is the keywords that are functions:
>
> $ perl -e 'print: goto print'
> Can't find label 1 at -e line 1.
Darn. Looks like the already-committed complete ban on keyword labels is
the sanest option. Fortunately we do have C<use VERSION> to limit any
collateral damage from new keywords.
--
Chip Salzenberg
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