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Bernie Cosell <bernie@fantasyfarm.com> wrote:
> good heavens.. the actual subroutine name is semi-colon?? So
> the name isn't missing and isn't null, but is ';'. I'm not sure
> that that doesn't make it MORE confusing to me --- Are there
> other punctuation marks that work in that context??
perl -e"for(0..255){eval'&'.chr().';';print$_,': ',$@}"
You can use any character in that way except for whitespace
characters, '&', and '{'. Strangely, &; does give a syntax
error if it's the very end of the program; you need another
';' or '}' after it.
--
Keith C. Ivey <kcivey@cpcug.org>
Washington, DC
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