On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:05:16AM -0500, Ala Qumsieh wrote: > > Bernie writes: > > On 5 Dec 2001, at 14:09, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: > > > > > Bernie Cosell schreef op 05 december 2001: > > > > Meta-question: since Perl is content to try to *call* > > '&main::;' is there > > > > some trickery to *DEFINE* such a subroutine? For example, trying: > > > > main:: { die; } > > > > gets you what I would have expected in the '..&' case: a > > syntax error for a > > > > missing subroutine name. > > > > > > perl -e'*;=sub {1}; print &;' > > > > 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?? > > I was certainly amused when I understood what 11..& meant, but it didn't > amaze me a single bit. Afterall, Perl defines the global variable $; so > there already is a symbol table entry for ';', thus you can certainly define > a subrouting called '::;'. > > How someone would think of doing that is another question though :) Yeah, but you know, one can leave out the final semi colon .... echo "Foo" | perl -nle '*;=sub{1};print&' AbigailThread Previous | Thread Next