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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 02:03:46PM +0200, demerphq wrote: > 2009/8/27 Abigail <abigail@abigail.be>: > The doocumentation should read "non-perl-word, non whitespace delimiter" > > We use "alphhanumeric" fairly regularly when we speak of > "perl-word-characters" or "identifier" (which cannot be expressed by a > character class as it cannot start with a number, yet can end with > one). > > > > > > > But even then, the documentation isn't correct. You *can* use word characters > > as delimiters: > > > > s _/32__ > > > > and > > > > s s/32ss > > > > are fine. > > > > The problem here lies in the tokenization part: the first token of > > C<< s_/32__ >> is C<< s_ >>, which isn't the substitution operator. > > > > In fact, this issue isn't any different from saying you cannot use C<< _ >> > > as a function argument because you wrote: > > > > C<< func_ >> > > > > which isn't parsed as C<< func (_) >> either. > > Right. This is not a bug. in the implementation. I think we agree that the documentation needs to be improved. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next