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Re: Eval Errors
From:
Randy W. Sims
Date:
February 23, 2004 21:11
Subject:
Re: Eval Errors
Message ID:
403ADC8A.1020703@ThePierianSpring.org
I've CC'd p5p for enlightenment & simplified your code to the following:
my @code = (
q('a poorly 'nested' string'),
q('a poorly 'nested::nested' string'),
);
for (@code) {
eval;
print "Caught: $@" if $@;
}
Output is:
Caught: Bad name after nested' at (eval 1) line 1.
Bareword found where operator expected at (eval 2) line 1, near "'a
poorly 'nested::nested"
(Missing operator before nested::nested?)
String found where operator expected at (eval 2) line 1, near
"nested::nested' string'"
Caught: syntax error at (eval 2) line 1, near "'a poorly 'nested::nested"
I understand the errors, but not the difference in behaviour. I think
this is DWIMish bug in perl, but let's see what more enlightened minds
say before reporting it as such.
Randy.