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On 5 Dec 2001, at 14:46, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
> Bernie Cosell schreef op 05 december 2001:
> > On 5 Dec 2001, at 14:09, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
> > 2) WHY does perl allow this --- it still seems like a slam-dunk syntax error
> > situation to me
>
> The global variables @a, $a, %a and &a are all stored in the same data
> structure (the typeglob, see perldata). Therefore, if the subscript
> separator variable $; can be used, there should be an entry in the
> symbol table for ;, and @;, %; and &; are valid names.
Aha. THANKS.. The light bulb slowly begins to glimmer. Of course: if Perl
needs to be able to support all the $<char> scalars, then symtab entries for
them must exist, and so you ought to be able to do anything with them. So I
would now not be at all surprised to find out that you can have a hash and and
array named ";".
/Bernie\
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